Definitions of bristle

1. To stand erect as bristles; to raise the head and strut, as in anger or defiance.

2. To erect, or stand erect, as bristles; make bristly; excite; irritate; agitate.

3. To be thickly beset, as with bristles.

4. To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.

5. To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; - sometimes with up.

6. To cause to stand up in a stiff, prickly way; to furnish with bristles, as a brush.

7. To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.

8. To show defiance or indignation.

9. 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.

10. To stand erect, as bristles.

11. To erect in bristles; to cause to bristle up; to fix a bristle.

12. To stand erect as bristles; to strut about with head erect in anger or defiance.

13. a stiff hair

14. a stiff fiber ( coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic

15. rise up as in fear; " The dog's fur bristled"; " It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"

16. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

17. A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.

18. A short, stiff, coarse hair.

19. A short, stiff hair, as of swine.

20. A strong, stiff hair.

21. A coarse, stiff hair, as of swine.

22. The stiff hair of swine; a hairy pubescence on plants.

23. The stiff hair on the backs of swine, particularly wild boars; any stiff hair.