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

Brush :: Brush (n.) An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles..

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

Setulose :: Setulose (a.) Having small bristles or setae.

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..

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

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..

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like 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..

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

Styliferous :: Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria..

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

Setous :: Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

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..

Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

Bristliness :: Bristliness (n.) The quality or state of having bristles.

Thysanura :: Thysanura (n. pl.) An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura..

Ctenostomata :: Ctenostomata (n. pl.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles..

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