Definition of bristle

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Bristle (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up..

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Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..
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..
Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair..
Rictal :: Rictal (a.) Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.
Setous :: Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
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..
Frontlet :: Frontlet (n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles..
Awned :: Awned (a.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded..
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..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like 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..
Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.
Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..
Ctenostomata :: Ctenostomata (n. pl.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles..
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..
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