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The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.

A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.

A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.

enus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

ionæa muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.…

The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.

Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles. Gray.

To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr. [Archaic] At them he gan to rear his bristles strong, And felly gnarre. Spenser. A thousand wants Gnarr at the heels of men. Tennison.

One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog. "Bristled grunters." Tennyson.

rodents, allied to the porcupines, but with ratlike tails, and few quills, or only stiff bristles. The hedgehog rats belong to Capromys, Plagiodon, and allied genera. -- Hedgehog shell (Zoöl.), any spinose, marine, univalve shell of the genus Murex. -- Hedgehog thistle (Bot.), a plant of the Cactus family, globular…

Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.

Rough with bristles or minute spines.

To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. Smart.

Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling. Rough and horrent with figures in strong relief. De Quincey. With bright emblazonry and horrent arms. Milton.

Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities. [R.] In body, and in bristles, they became As swine, yet intellected as before. Cowper.

an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.

les, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositæ; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.