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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..

Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..

Awned :: Awned (a.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded..

Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..

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

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

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

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

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

Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..

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

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..

Glochidiate :: Glochidiate (a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles..

Brustle :: Brustle (v. i.) To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.

Setous :: Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

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

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

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles..

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

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