Definition of bristle

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Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..

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Chaetotaxy :: Chaetotaxy (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect.
Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.
Dustbrush :: Dustbrush (n.) A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..
Acicular :: Acicular (a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless..
Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles..
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
Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Rough with bristles or minute spines.
Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..
Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..
Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..
Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
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..
Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..
Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
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.
Birse :: Birse (n.) A bristle or bristles.
Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
Bristled :: Bristled (imp. & p. p.) of Bristl.
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