Bristle

1. n. A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
2. n. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
3. v. t. To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
4. v. i. To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
5. v. i. To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.