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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bristle \Bris"tle\ (br[i^]s"s'l), n. [OE. bristel, brustel, AS
bristl, byrst; akin to D. borstel, OHG. burst, G. borste,
Icel. burst, Sw borst, and to Skr. bh[.r]shti edge, point,
and prob, L. fastigium extremity, Gr 'a`flaston stern of a
ship, and E. brush, burr, perh. to brad. [root]96.]
1. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
2. (Bot.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. --Gray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bristle \Bris"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bristled}; p. pr & vb
n. {Bristling}.]
1. To erect the bristles of to cause to stand up as the
bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up
Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty Doth dogged
war bristle his angry crest. --Shak.
Boy, bristle thy courage up --Shak.
2. To fix a bristle to as to bristle a thread.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bristle \Bris"tle\, v. i.
1. To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
His hair did bristle upon his head. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing,
thick and erect, like bristles.
The hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten
thousand bayonets. --Thackeray.
Ports bristling with thousands of masts. --Macaulay.
3. To show defiance or indignation.
{To bristle up}, to show anger or defiance.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bristle
n 1: a stiff course hair or filament; natural or synthetic
2: a stiff hair
v 1: be in a state of movement or action "The room abounded with
screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers"
[syn: {abound}, {burst}]
2: rise up of animals fur or hair; as in fear
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