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Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.

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..

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

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

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

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..

Bristled :: Bristled (imp. & p. p.) of Bristl.

Glochidiate :: Glochidiate (a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles..

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

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

Birse :: Birse (n.) A bristle or bristles.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Acicula :: Acicula (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal..

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

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..

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