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verb

Bristle v. t. (past & past part. bristled; pres. part. bristling)

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." "Boy, bristle thy courage up."

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

Bristle v. i.

To rise or stand erect, like bristles. "His hair did bristle upon his head."

To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles. "The hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets." "Ports bristling with thousands of masts."

To show defiance or indignation.

To bristle up, to show anger or defiance.

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Etymology of 'Bristled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bristled" Quotes from Famous Books

... my affair and return to thee." So he looked into the book, and behold, it treated of the Divine prohibition against advoutry and of the punishments which Allah hath prepared for those who commit adulterous sin. When he read this, his flesh quaked and his hair bristled and he repented to Almighty Allah: then he called the woman and, giving her the book, went away. Now her husband was absent and when he returned, she told him what had passed, whereat he was confounded and said in himself, ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... of it everywhere; and we were running short. We went into the brush together, very pleasantly; and he fell a little behind. I looked back, and his knife brushed my neck and quivered in a tree a yard beyond me. So I went back and took him in my hands. He had another knife—the little man fairly bristled with them. But it struck a rib, and before he could use it again, his ...

— All the Brothers Were Valiant • Ben Ames Williams

... come to a funeral yet!" bristled Raymonde. "The old boy looks good for another ten years or so. Don't you go ordering ...

— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil

... and raised his dark velvet cap to the children, and his grizzled hair bristled out in a stormy fringe. He was old—forty at least—but his eyes were young, with funny little wrinkles all round them. A satchel of embroidered leather hung from his broad ...

— Puck of Pook's Hill • Rudyard Kipling

... she got the technique of her stories, the light-hearted boldness of her conversation and her extraordinary devotion to her family. She was always something of a puzzle to English women because she was a great deal more domestic than most of them and yet bristled with theories about morals and life in general that had nothing whatever in common with domesticity. Some one once said of her that "she was a hot water bottle playing ...

— Fortitude • Hugh Walpole

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