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▸ noun:  A stiff or coarse hair, usually and especially on a nonhuman mammal.
▸ noun:  A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
▸ noun:  The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, usually with with) To abound, to be covered with, or to have an abundance of, something, especially something jutting out.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, usually with at or with) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
▸ verb:  (transitive, now rare or obsolete) To make (something) rise or stand erect, like bristles.
▸ verb:  (transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to be on one's guard or raise one's defenses.
▸ verb:  (rare) To fix a bristle or bristles to.
▸ noun:  (slang, humorous) Bristol, England (in imitation of the local dialect)

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