Bristle

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A stiff hair.
  • n. A stiff hairlike structure: the bristles of a wire brush.
  • verb-intransitive. To stand stiffly on end like bristles: The hair on the dog's neck bristled.
  • verb-intransitive. To raise the bristles: The cat bristled at the sight of the large dog.
  • verb-intransitive. To react in an angry or offended manner: The author bristled at the suggestion of plagiarism.
  • verb-intransitive. To be covered or thick with or as if with bristles: The path bristled with thorns.
  • v. To cause to stand erect like bristles; stiffen.
  • v. To furnish or supply with bristles.
  • v. To make bristly; ruffle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A stiff or coarse hair.
  • n. The hair or straws that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.
  • n. A humorous misspelling of Bristol, in imitation of the local dialect in the English city of that name,
  • v. To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
  • n. A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
  • v. To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
  • v. To fix a bristle to.
  • verb-intransitive. To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
  • verb-intransitive. To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
  • verb-intransitive. To show defiance or indignation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of the stiff, coarse, glossy hairs of certain animals, especially those of the hog kind which are not hairless, large and thickly set along the back, and smaller and more scattered on the sides.
  • n. A similar appendage on some plants; a stiff, sharp hair.
  • n. In dipterous insects of the division Brachycera, the arista or terminal part of the antenna.
  • n. In ornithology, a bristly feather; a feather with a stout stiff stem and little or no web.
  • To erect the bristles of; erect in anger or defiance, as a hog erects its bristles.
  • To make bristly.
  • To fix a bristle on: as, to bristle a shoemaker's thread.
  • To rise up or stand on end like bristles.
  • To stand erect and close together like bristles.
  • To be covered, as with bristles: as, the ranks bristled with spears. See to bristle with, below.
  • To manifest conspicuously: as, he bristled with excitement.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be in a state of movement or action
  • v. react in an offended or angry manner
  • v. rise up as in fear
  • n. a stiff hair
  • v. have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles
  • n. a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
  • Verb Form
    bristled    bristles    bristling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    have    feature    respond    react    hair    fiber    fibre   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    bristled    bristling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    seta    setula    setule    vibrissa   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    antimissile    dismissal    epistle    fissel    fissile    gristle    missal    missel    missile    thistle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mustache    tuft    fuzz    stubble    mane    mustaches    ringlet    eyebrow    blotch    curl