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

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

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

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

Horrent :: Horrent (a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling..

Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread..

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

Rigidulous :: Rigidulous (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle..

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

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

Dustbrush :: Dustbrush (n.) A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture..

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

Setigerous :: Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle..

Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

Styliferous :: Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria..

Thysanura :: Thysanura (n. pl.) An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura..

Verriculate :: Verriculate (a.) Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches..

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