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One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. Cussans.

A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.

An augur. [R.]

One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear.

Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney. [Eng.]

One versed in belleslettres.

Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. "An unlearned, belletristic trifler." M. Arnold.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up. Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. Shak. Boy, bristle thy courage up. Shak.

Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.

Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.

An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.

The quality or state of having bristles.

THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.

A seaport city in the west of England. Bristol board, a kind of fine pasteboard, made with a smooth but usually unglazed surface. -- Bristol brick, a brick of siliceous matter used for polishing cultery; -- originally manufactured at Bristol. -- Bristol stone, rock crystal, or brilliant crystals of quartz, found in t…

One who caricatures.

One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson.

One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

Same as Cellarer.

An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the "Magdeburg Centuries." See under Century. [R.]