Definition of bristle

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Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..

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Setigerous :: Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle..
Verriculate :: Verriculate (a.) Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches..
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw..
Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..
Frontlet :: Frontlet (n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up..
Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..
Rigidulous :: Rigidulous (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle..
Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..
Birse :: Birse (n.) A bristle or bristles.
Brush Wheel :: Brush wheel () A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference..
Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Rough with bristles or minute spines.
Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair..
Horrent :: Horrent (a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling..
Glochidiate :: Glochidiate (a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles..
Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..
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