Definition of bristle

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Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles..

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Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles..
Bristle-pointed :: Bristle-pointed (a.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves..
Birse :: Birse (n.) A bristle or 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..
Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..
Ctenostomata :: Ctenostomata (n. pl.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles..
Glochidiate :: Glochidiate (a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles..
Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair..
Bristliness :: Bristliness (n.) The quality or state of having bristles.
Lepisma :: Lepisma (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug..
Awned :: Awned (a.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded..
Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.
Acicula :: Acicula (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal..
Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..
Strigine :: Strigillose (a.) Set with stiff, slender bristles..
Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..
Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..
Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.
Cinura :: Cinura (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma..
Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..
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