Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Standing up stiffly like bristles.
- noun Same as
brisling .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
bristles . - adjective Showing anger.
- verb Present participle of
bristle .
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Examples
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It's warm and muscular and covered in bristling needles of short white and brown hair.
Yoga With Horses Aims For Deeper Connection At The Star Peak Stables In Golden Boulder Daily Camera 2010
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It's warm and muscular and covered in bristling needles of short white and brown hair.
Yoga With Horses Aims For Deeper Connection At The Star Peak Stables In Golden Boulder Daily Camera 2010
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It's warm and muscular and covered in bristling needles of short white and brown hair.
Yoga With Horses Aims For Deeper Connection At The Star Peak Stables In Golden Boulder Daily Camera 2010
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It's warm and muscular and covered in bristling needles of short white and brown hair.
Yoga With Horses Aims For Deeper Connection At The Star Peak Stables In Golden Boulder Daily Camera 2010
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It's warm and muscular and covered in bristling needles of short white and brown hair.
Yoga With Horses Aims For Deeper Connection At The Star Peak Stables In Golden The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Finally, during a vote by owners still bristling from the 1981 strike, Kuhn did not earn re-election Nov. 1, 1982.
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So Obama held more sway and ran into less visible pushback, except for bristling from the Chinese.
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So Obama held more sway and ran into less visible pushback, except for bristling from the Chinese.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By BEN FELLER 2011
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So Obama held more sway and ran into less visible pushback, except for bristling from the Chinese.
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So Obama held more sway and ran into less visible pushback, except for bristling from the Chinese.
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