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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bristle \Bris"tle\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bristled
adjective: 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}]
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