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.
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.
A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
To protuberate; to bulge out.
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
To grow gradually in force or loudness.
To be raised to arrogance.
To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
To cause to become bigger.
A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
The act of swelling; increase in size.
The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
A person of high social standing; an important person.
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
A bulge or protuberance.
A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
Very well.