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Bristle vs Horrent - What's the difference?

bristle | horrent |

As a proper noun bristle

is (slang|humorous) bristol, england (in imitation of the local dialect).

As an adjective horrent is

standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling.

bristle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stiff or coarse hair.
  • The hair or straws that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.

    • Derived terms

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    Verb

    (bristl)
  • To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • His hair did bristle upon his head.
  • To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
  • * Thackeray
    • the hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets
  • * Macaulay
    • ports bristling with thousands of masts
  • To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty / Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • To fix a bristle to.
    • to bristle a thread

    Derived terms

    * bristling

    Anagrams

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    horrent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Charles H. Sylvester, title=Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Impregnable their front appears, All horrent with projected spears, Whose polished points before them shine, From flank to flank, one brilliant line, Bright as the breakers' splendors run Along the billows to the sun. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Algernon Charles Swinburne, title=Astrophel and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But higher than all its horrent height of shade Shone sovereign, seen by light itself had made, Above the woes of all the world, above Life, sin, and death, his myriad-minded love. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1886, author=A. D. Crake, title=The House of Walderne, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Above them the rocks rose wild and horrent , apparently inaccessible, but the keen eye of our Hubert detected one path, a mere goat path, used perhaps also by shepherds. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1854, author=William Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Lancashire Witches, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Its wild and savage aspect, its horrent precipices, its shaggy woods, its strangely-shaped rocks and tenebrous depths, where every imperfectly-seen object appeared doubly frightful--all combined to invest it with mystery and terror. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1835, author=Edward Bulwer Lytton, title=Rienzi, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He was now at the spot in which his brother had left him; hastily he glanced behind, and saw the couched lance and horrent crest of the horseman close at his rear; despairingly he looked up, and behold! his brother bursting through the tangled brakes that clothed the mountain, and bounding to his succour. }} (Webster 1913) ----