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

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

Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

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..

Bristled :: Bristled (imp. & p. p.) of Bristl.

Cinura :: Cinura (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma..

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

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

Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..

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

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

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

Acicular :: Acicular (a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless..

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

Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..

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..

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

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

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

Acicula :: Acicula (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal..

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