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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.
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