bristling

  • 1bristling — index hostile, resentful, rife Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 2bristling — [[t]brɪ̱slɪŋ[/t]] 1) ADJ: ADJ n Bristling means thick, hairy, and rough. It is used to describe things such as moustaches, beards, or eyebrows. He was tall, bespectacled, with a bristling white moustache. 2) ADJ: ADJ n (emphasis) If you describe… …

    English dictionary

  • 3Bristling — Bristle Bris tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bristled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bristling}.] 1. To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; sometimes with up. [1913 Webster] Now for the bare picked bone of majesty Doth… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 4bristling with arms — index armed Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 5bristling — ▪ fish also spelled  Brisling,  also called  Sprat        (Sprattus sprattus), edible fish of the herring family Clupeidae (order Clupeiformes). Bristlings are silver coloured marine fishes that form enormous schools in western European waters.… …

    Universalium

  • 6bristling — adjective a) Having bristles. b) Showing anger …

    Wiktionary

  • 7bristling — Synonyms and related words: alive with, barbellate, bristled, bristly, bursting, close, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, firm, full, glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, in profusion, jam packed, jammed, lavish, overflowing,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 8bristling — bris·tle || brɪsl n. short stiff hair v. stand on end (of hair); be stiff or rigid with anger; be filled with …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 9bristling —   Kalakū, huhulu, huluhulu, huluhulu weo, i i …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 10bristling — I. present part of bristle II. variant of brisling …

    Useful english dictionary