BRUSTLE

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment. [Obs.] Gower.

2.
v.

To make a show of fireceness or defiance; to bristle. [Obs.] To brustle up, to bristle up. [Obs.] Otway.

3.
n.

A bristle. [Obs. or Prov.] Chaucer.

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