Definition of bristle

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

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Bristle-shaped :: Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..
Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.
Setiferous :: Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles..
Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..
Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..
Styliferous :: Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria..
Setous :: Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
Glochidiate :: Glochidiate (a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles..
Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..
Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up..
Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two bristles.
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..
Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles..
Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..
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