Word Meanings - BRUSTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment. Gower. 2. To make a show of fireceness or defiance; to bristle. To brustle up, to bristle up. Otway.

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• GARMENT
  Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.
• BRISTLE
  A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. Gray. (more info) D. borstel, OHG. burst, G. borste, Icel. burst, Sw. borst, and to Skr. bh edge, point, and prob, L. fastigium extremity, Gr. brush, 1. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
• CRACKLE
  To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• BRUSTLE
  1. To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment. Gower. 2. To make a show of fireceness or defiance; to bristle. To brustle up, to bristle up. Otway.
• GARMENTURE
  Clothing; dress.
• CRACKLEWARE
  See 3
• BRISTLETAIL
  An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.
• BRISTLE-SHAPED
  Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.
• RUSTLE
  1. To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. Shak. Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Shak. 2. To stir about energetically; to strive
• RUSTLER
  1. One who, or that which, rustles. 2. A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person.
• DEFIANCE
  1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat. A war without a just defiance made. Dryden. Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down. Tennyson. 2. A state of opposition;
• BRISTLE-POINTED
  Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.
• RUSTLESS
  Free from rust.
• GARMENTED
  Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.
• MISTRUSTLESS
  Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• TRUSTLESS
  That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful. -- Trust"less*ness, n.
• FOOTWAY
  A passage for pedestrians only.
• UNDER-GARMENT
  A garment worn below another.
• OVER-GARMENT
  An outer garment.
• THRUSTLE
  The throstle, or song thrust. When he heard the thrustel sing. Chaucer.