Definition of bristle

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

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Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Rough with bristles or minute spines.
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..
Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..
Bristletail :: Bristletail (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura..
Brush Wheel :: Brush wheel () A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference..
Horrent :: Horrent (a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling..
Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two bristles.
Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
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..
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.
Stuccoes :: Stubby (a.) Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles..
Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..
Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..
Glochidiate :: Glochidiate (a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles..
Setiferous :: Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles..
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..
Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.
Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..
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