BRISTLE
\bɹˈɪsə͡l], \bɹˈɪsəl], \b_ɹ_ˈɪ_s_əl]\
Definitions of BRISTLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a stiff hair
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a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
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rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
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A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
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To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
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To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
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To show defiance or indignation.
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To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; - sometimes with up.
By Oddity Software
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A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
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A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
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To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
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To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
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To show defiance or indignation.
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To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; - sometimes with up.
By Noah Webster.
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A short, stiff, coarse hair.
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To cause to stand up in a stiff, prickly way; to furnish with bristles, as a brush.
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To stand up in a stiff, prickly way; to be covered with, or full of, sharp points; as, the battle front bristles with bayonets; to become angry; as, to bristle up at an insulting remark.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To erect, or stand erect, as bristles; make bristly; excite; irritate; agitate.
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To be thickly beset, as with bristles.
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A coarse, stiff hair, as of swine.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The stiff hair of swine; a hairy pubescence on plants.
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To erect in bristles; to cause to bristle up; to fix a bristle.
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To stand erect as bristles; to raise the head and strut, as in anger or defiance.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The stiff hair on the backs of swine, particularly wild boars; any stiff hair.
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To stand erect as bristles; to strut about with head erect in anger or defiance.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
