Crossword-Solution: BRISTLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bristle | n. | A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine. |
| Bristle | n. | A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. |
| Bristle | v. t. | To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up. |
| Bristle | v. t. | To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread. |
| Bristle | v. i. | To rise or stand erect, like bristles. |
| Bristle | v. i. | To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles. |
| Bristle | v. i. | To show defiance or indignation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BRISTLE | anagram | BLISTER, RIBLETS |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CAEZEM
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eruption
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Sentences with BRISTLE (5)
Here the shearers knelt, the sun slanting in upon their bleached shirts, tanned arms, and the polished shears they flourished, causing them to bristle with a thousand rays strong enough to blind a weak-eyed man.
His hair will not bristle, therefore, at the stories which—in times when chimney-corners had benches in them, where old people sat poking into the ashes of the past, and raking out traditions like live coals—used to be told about this very room of his ancestral house.
His shirt was hanging open, and his emaciated chest, covered with yellow bristle, rose and fell horribly.
See Bristle, n.] A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, squareÐbodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.
His eyes were dilated and glaring, his lips drawn back so as to show his white fangs, and his straight black hair appeared to bristle over his low forehead like the hood of a cobra.
Quotes with BRISTLE (3)
As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black person who has been scalded with boiling water or who has burned himself with acid creams. Even the hair in their arms and necks stood out stiff and straight like the bristle of an aging hog.
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.
Knowing, above all, that I would come looking, and find what he had left for me, all that remained of The Jungle Book in the pocket of his doctor’s coat, that folder-up, yellowed page torn from the back of the book, with a bristle of thick, coarse hairs clenced inside. Galina, says my grandfather’s handwriting, above and below a child’s drawing of the tiger, who is curved like the blade of a scimitar across the page. Galina, it says, and that is how I know to find him again, …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1945–2023).