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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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..

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

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