[1] : 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.
      1913 webster

            now for the bare-picked bone of majesty
            doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. --shak.
      1913 webster

            boy, bristle thy courage up.          --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
      1913 webster
see also:
bristled bristling 

[2] : 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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