noun a stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
2. bristle ·vi to show defiance or indignation.
3. bristle ·vi to rise or stand erect, like bristles.
4. bristle ·vt to fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
5. bristle ·noun a short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
6. bristle ·vi to appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
7. bristle ·vt to erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog;
sometimes with up.