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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..

Seta :: Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss..

Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.

Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.

Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..

Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two bristles.

Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs 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..

Acicular :: Acicular (a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless..

Cinura :: Cinura (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma..

Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.

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

Frontlet :: Frontlet (n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles..

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..

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

Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..

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

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

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