bristled : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bristled	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bristled
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Synonym(s): barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bristle \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.