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Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

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  1. a. Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
  2. adj. very irritable
  3. adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
  4. THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.
  5. THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles;rough.The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.