Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of bristle is as below...

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

Dustbrush :: Dustbrush (n.) A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture..

Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..

Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..

Strigine :: Strigillose (a.) Set with stiff, slender bristles..

Seta :: Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread..

Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two bristles.

Bristle-pointed :: Bristle-pointed (a.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves..

Bristle-shaped :: Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf..

Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..

Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.

Bristled :: Bristled (imp. & p. p.) of Bristl.

Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.

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..

Hog :: Hog (v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse..

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Rough with bristles or minute spines.

Wart Hog :: Wart hog () Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of the coasts of

Perigynium :: Perigynium (n.) Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae..

Random Fonts

Most Popular