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

Lepisma :: Lepisma (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug..

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

Setiferous :: Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles..

Chaetotaxy :: Chaetotaxy (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Stuccoes :: Stubby (a.) Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles..

Perigynium :: Perigynium (n.) Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae..

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..

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

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

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