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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Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
Strigine :: Strigillose (a.) Set with stiff, slender bristles..
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..
Acicular :: Acicular (a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless..
Dustbrush :: Dustbrush (n.) A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture..
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..
Bristliness :: Bristliness (n.) The quality or state of having bristles.
Brustle :: Brustle (v. i.) To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.
Horrent :: Horrent (a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..
Bristletail :: Bristletail (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura..
Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
Setous :: Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..
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