A stiff or coarse hair, usually and especially on a nonhuman mammal.
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 chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
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.
An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.