Bristle

(noun.) a stiff hair.

(noun.) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic.

(verb.) react in an offended or angry manner; 'He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program'.

(verb.) rise up as in fear; 'The dog's fur bristled'; 'It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!'.

(verb.) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles; 'bristling leaves'.

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• Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He was of a sickly color, and his thin, sandy hair seemed to bristle up with the intensity of his emotion. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Those noises at night make the hair on my head bristle. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Fasten a stiff bristle to a tuning fork by means of wax, allowing the end of the point to rest lightly upon a piece of smoked glass. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He was a brave man, but he had felt the short hairs bristle upon the nape of his neck when that uncanny cry rose upon the air. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• As in hand-making and before subjected to the action of the machine, the bristles are sorted as to length and color. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Oh, on certain sides Louisa bristles with perceptions. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The other cylinder was covered with brushes, and so placed that the tips of the bristles of these brushes touched the saw-teeth. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• These generally consist of long bristles, capable of movement and easily excited. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In this, brush blocks of varying sizes, but of the same pattern, are bored by the same machine which receives the bristles, and the tufts are inserted as fast as the holes are bored. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The finer quality of bristles goes to the brushmakers, and the balance is used by upholsterers for mixing with horse hair. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A comb-shaped slitted plate in the machine has then each slit filled with bristles, sufficient in number to form a single tuft. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Under the clear rays of the Arizona moon lay Powell, his body fairly bristling with the hostile arrows of the braves. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• They had, therefore, to meet the shock standing or kneeling behind a bristling wall of pikes or bayonets. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• With his savage eyes and bristling moustache he was wonderfully like a tiger himself. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He was a great, tall, bristling Orson of a fellow, full six feet and some inches in his stockings, and arrayed in a red flannel hunting-shirt. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Sir,' returns Twemlow, with his wristbands bristling a little, 'YOU repeat the word; I repeat the word. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He was prematurely bald on the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down but stood up bristling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It was that of a bearded man, but the beard was short and bristled forward in a way very different from that of the captain. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Paul's hair was shorn close as raven down, or I think it would have bristled on his head. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It bristled from her so palpably that one might almost have cut it with a sword. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Collar and shirt bore the grime of a long journey, and the hair bristled unkempt from the well-shaped head. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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