Then we stripped the mask with its bristle of long whiskers, took the gall, and dragged the carcass into the surf where it was devoured by fish.

The eye rests with equal delight on what is not leaf and on what is leaf,on the broad, free, open sinuses, and on the long, sharp, bristle-pointed lobes.

The offices of the Post, the Telegraph and Telephone bristle with women, of course, for eleven thousand have taken the places of men.

[Fr.], bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle.

Sharpness N. sharpness &c adj.; acuity, acumination^; spinosity^. point, spike, spine, spicule [Biol.], spiculum^; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle^, bear grass [U.S.], tine, yucca.

V. be sharp &c adj.; taper to a point; bristle with. render sharp &c adj.; sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate^, set, strop, grind; chip (flint). cut &c (sunder) 44.

He was waiting for me, and scarce giving my horse time to recover his stride after the jump, he came rushing at me, every bristle erect, with a vicious grunt of spite and rage.

Its great horns, its enormous ugly head, and then its coarse, bristle-like hair, had all to be examined and commented upon.

A bristle-whiskered German giant under a canvas-covered helmet stuck his head through the flaps, and for more than ten minutes he and another sentinel searched our knapsacks and credentials and inspected the Government mail pouches which we carried.

He who goes abroad always ready to bristle up against what does not exactly conform to his preconceived ideas of propriety, measuring and weighing all things with his own national weights and measures, will be continually making himself disagreeable and unhappy, and in the end profit little by his absence from home.

Candace immediately began mentally to bristle her feathers like a hen who sees a hawk in the distance, and responded with decision: "Den you heard sometin', for once in your life!"

Sori on the edge of a pinnule terminating a vein; sporangia at the base of a long, bristle-like receptacle surrounded by a cup-shaped indusium.

The Filmy Fern Family (Trichómanes) has the spore cases along a bristle-like receptacle and surrounded by an urn-shaped, slightly two-lipped involucre; ring transverse and opening vertically (Fig. 7).

The name holly fern suggests its resemblance to holly leaves with their bristle-tipped teeth.

Woódsia ilvénsis Fronds oblong-lanceolate, three to ten inches high, rather smooth above, thickly clothed underneath with rusty, bristle-like chaff.

Sporangia sessile on a bristle-like receptacle.

BRISTLE FERN Trichómanes Boschiànum.

Sporangia clustered around the slender bristle, which is the prolongation of a vein, and surrounded by a vase-like, slightly two-lipped involucre.

He was a tall powerful man, and his bristle of scalp-locks and eagle feathers made him look a giant in the dim light, for a good eight feet lay between his beaded moccasin and the topmost plume of his headgear.

He recognised many of his frequent visiters, and if any female among them was laid hold of, in his presence, he would bristle with rage, strike the bars of his cage with tremendous force, and violently gnash his teeth at the ungallant offender.

Base of these wings in the male with a strong bristle passing behind a strong corneous retinaculum, which arises from the anterior side of the sub-costal nervure.

c.* Base of wings of Euschemon rafflesia (MacLeay) to show the bristle and retinaculum.

l. Base of wings of Synemon, to show the bristle and retinaculum in the male.

m. Base of wings of Synemon, to show the bristle and retinaculum in the female.

Our highways both in and out of cities are filled with things that cut, and bristle with wire-nails.