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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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "bristling": alive with, barbellate, bristled, bristly, bursting, close, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, firm, full, glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, in profusion, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, overflowing, packed, populous, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, setaceous, setose, setous, solid, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging
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