(n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
(n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
(v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
(v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
(v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.
(v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
(v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.