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bristled, ppl. a.|ˈbrɪs(ə)ld|
[f. bristle + -ed.]
1. Covered, set, or tipped with bristles or stiff prickly hairs; rough and prickly, bristly.
a1300K. Alis. 5722 His rigge was bristled as with sharp sithen. c1374Chaucer Boeth. 148 Þe bristled[e] boor. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxix. ii, His bryes brystled truely lyke a sowes. 1578Lyte Dodoens iv. xlvi. 505 The eares are..more bristeled or bearded. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. ii. 96 With his Amazonian [C]hinne he droue The brizled Lippes before him. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 397 The bristled Boar..New grinds his arming Tusks. 1730Southall Bugs 19 Has six Legs..jointed and bristled as the Legs of a Crab.
2. Of hair or feathers:
a. Stiff like bristles.
b. Erect, raised, ‘on end’.
1553Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 16 In the sted of a tayle, a mane, or rough and bristeled heare. 1631Celestina i. 22 By thy brizzled beard. 1832A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. I. 169 The hen hurries about with hanging wings and bristled feathers. 1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. II. 84/2 With bristled mane and haggard eye.
3. Set as with bristles; bristling.
1676Hobbes Iliad iii. 183 The brissled Ranks Of th' armed Greeks. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 309 The..central range..bristled with pointed rocks. 1833I. Taylor Fanat. vi. 159 Through bristled ramparts and triple lines of shields.
4. Furnished with a bristle.
1794Gold. Age in Poet. Reg. (1807) 407 Arm'd with a bristled end and glittering awl. |