Obs.]; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous^; laciniate^, laciniform^, laciniose^; pappose^; pileous^, pilose^; trichogenous^, trichoid [Med.]; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose^, crinite^; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous^, bearded, pilous^, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed^; setous^, setose^, setaceous; like quills upon the fretful porcupine

" This is prosaic enough, and might have been written by a surgical student; but this is better: "The artificial wood of spears was wet With yet warm blood; and trembling in the wind, Did rattle like the thorns which Nature set On the rough hide of an armed porcupine; Or looked like the trees which dropped gore, Plucked from the tomb of slaughtered Polydore.

Prickly pesky porcupines.

And then out upon that white finger of sand came other things that dreaded the water as Gray Wolf dreaded it: a big fat porcupine, a sleek little marten, a fisher-cat that sniffed the air and wailed like a child.

Prickly pesky porcupines.

He said from a resemblance to a couching porcupine.

Then he set off like all dogs will who have come into contact with the friendly porcupine, and raced again and again around the windfall, howling at every jump.

He met in succession a hungry porcupine, an alligator, a horned viper, and some ants, of all of whom he made friends by feeding them the things he had taken along.

They are in general perfectly wild, and when encountered suddenly bristle up like an enraged porcupine.

When Holman approached the old maniac he ruffled up like an angry porcupine, and he screeched out his opinion concerning people who would not mind their own business.