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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..

Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..

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

Setous :: Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

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

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

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

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

Styliferous :: Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria..

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

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

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

Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..

Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

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..

Horrent :: Horrent (a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling..

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..

Bristletail :: Bristletail (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura..

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

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