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Fibre :: fibre () A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.

Bristletail :: Bristletail (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura..

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..

Chaetotaxy :: Chaetotaxy (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

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

Lepisma :: Lepisma (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug..

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

Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..

Birse :: Birse (n.) A bristle or bristles.

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..

Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.

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

Strigous :: Strigose (a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf..

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

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..

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..

Rictal :: Rictal (a.) Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles..

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

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