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bristled |
2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bristled adj : having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits" [syn: {barbed}, {barbellate}, {briary}, {briery}, {bristly}, {burred}, {burry}, {prickly}, {spiny}, {thorny}]
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