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Definition of Bristle

Bristle
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.
Bristle
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.

Meaning of Bristle from wikipedia

- A bristle is a stiff hair or feather (natural or artificial), either on an animal, such as a pig, a plant, or on a tool such as a brush or broom. Synthetic...
- Bristle blasting is a mechanical ab****n cleaning process that is performed on metallic surfaces by a brush-like rotary power tool. The tool consists...
- Bristle sensilla are a class of mechanoreceptors found in insects and other arthropods that respond to mechanical stimuli generated by the external world...
- The Bristles is a raw punk band formed in 1982 in Landskrona, Sweden. The name comes from GBH 12-inch Leather, Bristles, Studs and Acne. The band formed...
- Chicken Bristle is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Illinois, United States. Chicken Bristle is 5.5 miles (8.9 km) northwest of Tuscola....
- the gr**** family. The name is derived from the Latin word seta, meaning "bristle" or "hair", which refers to the bristly spikelets. The genus includes over...
- marine hatchetfish family Sternoptychidae. They are commonly known as bristle-mouth fishes, but that may also refer to the related bristlemouth family...
- The bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) is a medium-sized s****bird that breeds in Alaska and winters on tropical Pacific islands. It is known...
- called bristle worms or polychaetes (/ˈpɒlɪˌkiːts/). Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called...
- Setaria faberi, the ****anese bristlegr****, nodding bristle-gr****, Chinese foxtail, Chinese millet, giant bristlegr****, giant foxtail or nodding foxtail...