Word Meanings - BRISTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

• Stiffness
  The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
• SHORTCIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• Shortcoming
  The act of falling, or coming short
• Shortstop
  The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
• Short-waisted
  Having a short waist.
• Stifftail
  The ruddy duck.
• SHORTDATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.
• Short-winded
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
• Stiff-tailed
  Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
• SHORTHANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• Shortened /
  of Shorten
• Shortwing
  Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
• SHORTJOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• Coarse-grained
  Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.
• Shortening
  of Shorten
• Short-wited
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• Swinebread
  The truffle.

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