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

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

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

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

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..

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

Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..

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..

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

Bristle-pointed :: Bristle-pointed (a.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves..

Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..

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

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