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brisket |
briskly |
briskness |
brisling |
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bristle
| bristle at
| bristle brush
| bristle fern
| bristle grass
| bristle up
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bristle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bristle has 2 senses
- bristle(n = noun.artifact) Array - a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic; Array is a part of brush
- bristle(n = noun.animal) Array - a stiff hair; Array is a kind of hair
is a kind of fiber, fibre
Derived form adjective bristly2
Derived form verb bristle2
Verb bristle has 4 senses
- bristle(v = verb.stative) abound, burst - be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers" is one way to feature, have
- bristle(v = verb.motion) stand up, uprise - rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!" Derived form noun bristle2
- bristle(v = verb.stative) Array - have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles; "bristling leaves" is one way to feature, have
- bristle(v = verb.cognition) Array - react in an offended or angry manner; "He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program" is one way to react, respond
Sample sentence:
The streets bristle with crowds
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Something ----s
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Something is ----ing PP
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Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
bristle, n. [OE. bristel, brustel, AS. bristl, byrst; akin to D. borstel, OHG. burst, G. borste, Icel. burst, Sw. borst, and to Skr. bh edge, point, and prob, L. fastigium extremity, Gr. 'a`flaston stern of a ship, and E. brush, burr, perh. to brad.
- A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine. [1913 Webster]
- A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. Gray. [1913 Webster]
bristle, v. t.
- To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up. [1913 Webster]"Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty
Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest." [1913 Webster]"Boy, bristle thy courage up." [1913 Webster] - To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread. [1913 Webster]
bristle, v. i.
- To rise or stand erect, like bristles. [1913 Webster]"His hair did bristle upon his head." [1913 Webster]
- To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles. [1913 Webster]"The hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets." [1913 Webster]"Ports bristling with thousands of masts." [1913 Webster]
- To show defiance or indignation. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bristle, n. & v.
--n.
1 a short stiff hair, esp. one of those on an animal's back.
2 this, or a man-made substitute, used in clumps to make a brush.
--v.
1 a intr. (of the hair) stand upright, esp. in anger or pride. b tr. make (the hair) do this.
2 intr. show irritation or defensiveness.
3 intr. (usu. foll. by with) be covered or abundant (in).
--n.
1 a short stiff hair, esp. one of those on an animal's back.
2 this, or a man-made substitute, used in clumps to make a brush.
--v.
1 a intr. (of the hair) stand upright, esp. in anger or pride. b tr. make (the hair) do this.
2 intr. show irritation or defensiveness.
3 intr. (usu. foll. by with) be covered or abundant (in).
Etymology
ME bristel, brestel f. OE byrst
THESAURUS
bristle
Vandyke, acuminate, aggravate, anger, annoy, arise, arouse, badger, bait, barb, barbel, be alive, be at, be keen, beard, beaver, bedevil, beset, bite, blow up, boil, boil over, bother, bramble, bridle, bridle up, brier, bristle up, bristle with, bristles, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn, burn up, burr, cactus, capillament, catchweed, chafe, chivy, cilium, cleavers, coat, cock up, corrugate, crawl, crinkle, crumple, cut, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, down, embitter, exasperate, exercise, fash, flare up, fleece, flip out, fret, fume, fur, get, get mad, get sore, get up, goatee, goose grass, gripe, hair, harass, harry, have an edge, heckle, hector, horripilate, horsehair, hound, huff, imperial, incense, inflame, irk, irritate, jump up, mane, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peach fuzz, peeve, pelt, persecute, pester, pick on, pile, pine needle, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, prick, prickle, provoke, pubescence, pubic hair, quill, rage, ramp, rankle, reach boiling point, rear, rear up, ride, rile, rise, rise up, roil, ruffle, rumple, see red, seethe, set on edge, set up, seta, setula, setule, shag, side whiskers, sit bolt upright, sit up, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, stand up, stick, stick up, sticker, sting, stir the blood, stir up, striga, stubble, swarm, tease, teem, thistle, thorn, torment, try the patience, tuft, tweak the nose, upheave, uprear, uprise, vex, whisker, whiskers, wool, work up, worry, wrinkle, yuccaROGET THESAURUS
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Sharpness
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.
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