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Definition of Bristled
1. Adjective. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. "Setaceous whiskers"
Similar to: Armed
Derivative terms: Barbel, Briar, Bristle, Bristliness, Burr, Prickle, Prickliness, Seta, Spininess, Thorn, Thorniness
Definition of Bristled
1. Verb. (past of bristle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bristled
1. bristle [v] - See also: bristle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bristled
Literary usage of Bristled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"К —(bristled panic.) DIGITARIA. Calyx 1 or 2-valved, 2-flowered ; the outer valve
very small oi none ; the inmost one of the length of the corol : enrol ..."
2. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"The bristled Boar in infant-gore Wallows Have ye seen the dusky boar, Caradoc 1.
Board. For whom yon glitt 'ring board is spread, Odin 41 . partake His ..."
3. In the Vine Country by Edith Œnone Somerville, Martin Ross (1893)
"plate: excited harangues about vintages and grapes, that bristled with facts so
esoteric and so solid that my cousin said she would fetch the note-book at ..."
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