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Definition of To bristle up

To bristle up
Bristle Bris"tle, v. i. 1. To rise or stand erect, like bristles. His hair did bristle upon his head. --Sir W. Scott. 2. 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. --Thackeray. Ports bristling with thousands of masts. --Macaulay. 3. To show defiance or indignation. To bristle up, to show anger or defiance.

Meaning of To bristle up from wikipedia

- materials such as nylon are also used to make bristles in items such as brooms and sweepers. Bristles are often used to make brushes for cleaning purposes...
- The Bristles is a raw punk band formed in 1982 in Landskrona, Sweden. The name comes from GBH 12-inch Leather, Bristles, Studs and Acne. The band formed...
- Spikelets are 1.8–2.2 mm long. Each is subtended by up to three stiff bristles. Its fertile lemmas are finely cross-wrinkled. Setaria viridis is often...
- Look up seta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In biology, setae (/ˈsiːtiː/; sg. seta /ˈsiːtə/; from Latin saeta 'bristle') are any of a number of different...
- the bristle bent, is a species of gr**** in the family Poaceae native to Eurasia. It is densely tufted, with hair like leaves and stems that grow up to 60 cm...
- knotroot bristle-gr****, bristly foxtail and yellow bristlegr****. It is native to North America, including Mexico and the United States from California to the...
- up to about 75 centimeters tall. The inflorescence is a panicle of clustered spikelets surrounded by a cloudlike m**** of plumose white bristles up to...
- The genus Glycera is a group of polychaetes (bristle worms) commonly known as bloodworms. They are typically found on the bottom of shallow marine waters...
- guards the treasure, which bristles up, and, fixing a gashful gaze on the would-be marauder, with fiery eyes, seems ready to devour him if he approach...
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