A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
A stiff or coarse hair, usually and especially on a nonhuman mammal.
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
To fix a bristle to.
To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
To abound, to have an abundance of something, especially something jutting out.
A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
The tube of a musical instrument.
A pen made from a feather.
The pen of a squid.
Any pen.
To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
To pierce or be pierced with quills.
To decorate with quillwork.
To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
To write.