BRISTLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bristled mean? 

• BRISTLED (adjective)
  The adjective BRISTLED has 1 sense:

1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

  Familiarity information: BRISTLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRISTLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Synonyms:

barbed; barbellate; briary; briery; bristled; bristly; burred; burry; prickly; setaceous; setose; spiny; thorny

Context example:

setaceous whiskers

Similar:

armed ((used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns)

 Context examples 

Dick, on the porch, growled, and White Fang, on the steps, bristled and growled back.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As he spoke he fearlessly patted the head he had so mercilessly pounded, and though Buck’s hair involuntarily bristled at touch of the hand, he endured it without protest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His beard, streaked thickly with gray, bristled forward from his chin, and spoke of a passionate nature, while the long, finely cut face and firm mouth marked the leader of men.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My skin went cold and my hair bristled at that horrible scream.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every line bristled with many-syllabled words he did not understand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was that of a bearded man, but the beard was short and bristled forward in a way very different from that of the captain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His beard bristled exultantly, his chest was thrown out, and his hand was thrust into the front of his jacket.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It looked all brown and black: elf- locks bristled out from beneath a white band which passed under her chin, and came half over her cheeks, or rather jaws: her eye confronted me at once, with a bold and direct gaze.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Of course, in common speech with the sailors and hunters, it sometimes fairly bristled with errors, which was due to the vernacular itself; but in the few words he had held with me it had been clear and correct.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He bristled suspiciously, but the master warned him that all was well.

(White Fang, by Jack London)