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Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..

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

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..

Fibre :: fibre () A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.

Bristle-shaped :: Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf..

Birse :: Birse (n.) A bristle or bristles.

Bristliness :: Bristliness (n.) The quality or state of having bristles.

Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair..

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

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

Wart Hog :: Wart hog () Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of the coasts of

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Strigous :: Strigose (a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf..

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