Definition of bristle

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

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Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..
Verriculate :: Verriculate (a.) Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches..
Cinura :: Cinura (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma..
Bristle-shaped :: Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf..
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..
Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.
Pappus :: Pappus (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order..
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..
Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..
Frontlet :: Frontlet (n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles..
Hog :: Hog (v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles..
Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two 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..
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