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Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

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-shaped :: Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf..

Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

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

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.

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

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

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..

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

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..

Thysanura :: Thysanura (n. pl.) An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura..

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

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.

Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.

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

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..

Ctenostomata :: Ctenostomata (n. pl.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles..

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

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

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