Meanings
- not comparablebiologyHaving a furry tail, as many marsupials.
"Coursing? What, with those long-legged, brush-tailed brutes, like a fox upon stilts, which the prefect cozened you into buying?"
1857, Charles Kingsley, Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face, volume II, page 1701 more example
Nothing, only that it was restless and sticking its claws in the carpet to drag them out again, and apparently anxious to get out of the house - setting up its fur and looking brush-tailed, wild-eyed, and staring.
1867, George Manville Fenn, Bent, Not Broken, volume II, page 268
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