bristling

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty
            Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. --Shak.
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            Boy, bristle thy courage up.          --Shak.
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   2. To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "bristling":
      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, packed, populous, prodigal, profuse,
      proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, setaceous, setose, setous,
      solid, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded,
      superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with,
      thick-coming, thronged, thronging
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