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 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.

 bristled
      adj : having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines
            or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly
            mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous
            whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery,
             bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous,
             spiny, thorny]