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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Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.
Rigidulous :: Rigidulous (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle..
Brustle :: Brustle (v. i.) To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
Setiferous :: Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles..
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
Ctenostomata :: Ctenostomata (n. pl.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles..
Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..
Bristliness :: Bristliness (n.) The quality or state of having bristles.
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..
Chaetotaxy :: Chaetotaxy (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect.
Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two bristles.
Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.
Setulose :: Setulose (a.) Having small bristles or setae.
Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..
Cinura :: Cinura (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..
Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..
Glochidiate :: Glochidiate (a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles..
Acicular :: Acicular (a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless..
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..
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