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BRISTLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Example:
setaceous whiskers
Synonyms:
barbed; barbellate; briary; briery; bristled; bristly; burred; burry; prickly; setaceous; setose; spiny; thorny
Classified under:
Similar:
armed ((used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb bristle
Context examples:
Here and there savage dogs rushed upon him, but he bristled his neck-hair and snarled (for he was learning fast), and they let him go his way unmolested.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Far below the jagged points of the boulders bristled up, dark and menacing.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Collar and shirt bore the grime of a long journey, and the hair bristled unkempt from the well-shaped head.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Challenger glared and bristled.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They bristled with unknown perils, and he gazed at them, fascinated, till their dazzle became a background across which moved a succession of forecastle pictures, wherein he and his mates sat eating salt beef with sheath-knives and fingers, or scooping thick pea-soup out of pannikins by means of battered iron spoons.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
White Fang snarled no warning, but his hair bristled as he made his silent and deadly rush.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Only Spitz quivered and bristled as he staggered back and forth, snarling with horrible menace, as though to frighten off impending death.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
In front of them there lay a broad plain, watered by two winding streams and covered with grass, stretching away to where, in the furthest distance, the towers of Burgos bristled up against the light blue morning sky.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet there was much around to interest us, for we were passing through as singular a countryside as any in England, where a few scattered cottages represented the population of to-day, while on every hand enormous square-towered churches bristled up from the flat green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity of old East Anglia.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He snarled and bristled and flattened his ears.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
