Piliferous, bearing a slender bristle or hair (pilum), or beset with hairs.
Plumose, feathery; when any slender body (such as a bristle of a pappus or a style) is beset with hairs along its sides, like the plume of a feather.
Th’ envenomed pointed bristle sharply pierced The sole of him,[97] the bravest in the field.
It was a short, dark man with a little bristle of black whisker on his chin and a stiff bristle of black hair on his head.
I was about condescendingly to interpellate him in my best Polish, when I caught the gleam of an angry yellow eye and noted the bristle of a red beard--Kossowski!
The older Provinces simply bristle with haunted houses, and march phantom armies along their main thoroughfares.
A dot was made in the glass every quarter or half hour at the point where the end of the bristle and the apex of card coincided, and the dots were joined by straight lines.
A bristle was gummed to one cotyledon, and beyond it a triangular bit of card was fixed, and in front a vertical glass.
Bennington rubbed his chin and the bristle of his late-night, early-morning beard crackled crisply.
The face was gray and lined with fatigue, needed a shave and the bristle of the beard was more white than brown.
Their bodies were covered with a bristle of hair and fur and fluff, so that they looked like dogs in some parts and like cats in others, and in other parts again they looked like chickens.
And he sat forward, seeing all, seeing none, with his mouth drooping open, and such a wildness and bristle lowering from that great glum brow that the champions shivered as though already in the chill of death, and were silent.
His enormous frame leans back, his huge, hairy hands are clasped across his waistcoat, and his head is so tilted that I can see nothing above his collar save a tangled bristle of luxuriant beard.
Challenger snorted ferociously as he looked at it, and his thick black hair seemed to bristle up in his wrath.
In Utah they are dark green and shining on the upper side, smooth or slightly downy, with a bristle at the tip of each lobe, often reddish on the under side, and in Yosemite quite rough, with hairs on the edges and veins.
In the morning, with a stiff bristleor helix brush, in water at 100° degrees, scour the plates effectually, and remove the oxide by means of an ample use of elbow grease.
Other things being equal, the brush that is made up uniformly as to its bristle equipment will develop a good point, and all carriage painters are alive to the importance of this virtue in both paint and varnish brushes.
The bristle paint brushes require a clean storage quite to the extent that the color or varnish brushes do.
The bristle brushes used for priming, lead, and roughstuff require bridling until worn down somewhat.
In making choice of a brush for putting on priming, lead, and roughstuff, and for such other features of general use as require a round or oval bristle brush, the painter may properly look at the filling of the tool.
Sandpaper lightly and then mix Florence, flake, or cremnitz white to a consistency that will render the color free working under a half elastic, soft bristle brush, using turps for the thinner, and hard drying finishing varnish for the binder.
The vehicle painter's brush equipment should consist of a good assortment of round or oval bristle brushes for putting on priming, lead, and roughstuff.
Apply this lead with a bristle brush and enforce rigidly the rule of smoothness and sleek brushing out.
Thrust a bristle into the opening and see where it enters the mouth-cavity through the internal nares.
Giudice, allbristle and fire, dashed forth from the door in the gable.
Darling Judy hated him from every bristle of his body, not only through instinct, but for certain excellent reasons.
These roofs are high-pitched and bristle with small-paned dormer windows and with chimneys, for the houses that stand beneath them are very, very old indeed.
In lieu of a setting bristle a length of sewing cotton may be used.
Having placed the first insect on the saddle with its body comfortably resting in the groove and the wings flush with the surface, the setting bristle is then brought into action.
Tilt the pin slightly forward until the bristle presses lightly on the central area of the wings, then with the setting needle push the wings into the required position, and at the same time drive pin of bristle into the saddle.
The point of the pin is rested on the saddle directly in the rear of the hind wing, and the top of the bristle touching the saddle in advance of the front wing.
The swish of them was enough to set him a-bristle with suspicion, and on a windy day she could not approach him at all.
A gun cracked among the rocks to the right, and Negore heard the war-yell of all his tribe, and for an instant saw the rocks and bushes bristle alive with his kinfolk.
Possibly this was the method of many of the amateur printers of that century, whose books, according to Schelhorn, bristle with horrid and squalid errors.
The pony leaped forward, thebristle of flower stalk painfully rubbing his spine.
Then, too, they bristle with Mausers and Mannlichers, and are heavily weighted with bandoleers in which cartridges are as thick as teeth in a man's mouth.
You bristle with eagerness, senor caballero of my soul!
It made her bristle up again, so that even Rachel saw the impossibility of pressing it, and trusted to some signal confutation to cure her of her infatuation.
Mouth with five to six parallel, conical strong teeth, which are twice as long as a bristle (fig.
Out of the one wood and into the other they passed, all with the same crouching, furtive gait, until the black bristle of trees had swallowed up the last of them.
To the right of this stood, and stands to this day, an ancient barrow, or burying mound, covered deeply in a bristle of heather and bracken.
Close to the banks of the Garonne there lay a little tract of green sward, with the high wall of a prior's garden upon one side and an orchard with a thick bristle of leafless apple-trees upon the other.
Dim memories he had of beetling cliffs, of a group of huts with wondering faces at the doors, of foaming, clattering water, and of a bristle of mountain beeches.
From each man's girdle hung sword or axe, according to his humor, and over the right hip there jutted out the leathern quiver with its bristle of goose, pigeon, and peacock feathers.
In the Heteropterous section they are without a bristleat their end; and in the Homopterous one, with the exception of Aphis, Thrips, &c.
Machilis to the anal fork adds eight pair of ventral linear springs (Elastes), which are covered with hair or scales, and terminate in a bristle or two.
It may foam with abuse and bristle with perversion of fact; but it cannot obscure the unquestionable truth, which now stares everybody in the face, that a vote for Buchanan is a vote for all these bad things.
It occured to the Abbé d'Hautefeuille to form a sort of resilient mechanism by attaching one end of a hog's bristle to the plate and the other to the balance near the axis.
His smooth round head, with the particular shade of its white hair, was like a silver pot reversed; his cheekbones and the bristle of his moustache were worthy of Attila the Hun.
