different between bristle vs ursine

English

Etymology

From Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, diminutive of brust, from Old English byrst, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare Dutch borstel, German Borste (“boar's bristle”), Icelandic burst), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r?stís (compare Middle Irish brostaid (“to goad, spur”), Latin fast?gium (“top”), Polish barszcz (“hogweed”)), equivalent to brust +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??s.l?/
• (dated, rural folk speech of New England and Upstate New York) IPA^(key): /?b??s.l?/
• Rhymes: -?s?l

Noun

bristle (plural bristles)

1. A stiff or coarse hair.

   the bristles of a pig

2. The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.

Derived terms

• bristlet

Translations

Verb

bristle (third-person singular simple present bristles, present participle bristling, simple past and past participle bristled)

1. To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
2. abound, to have an abundance of something
3. (with at) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
4. To fix a bristle to.

   to bristle a thread

Derived terms

• bristling

Translations

References

• bristle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Bitlers, Liberts, blister, reblits, riblets

English

Etymology

Mid 16th century, from Latin ursinus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.sa?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???sa?n/, /???s?n/
• ,

Adjective

ursine (comparative more ursine, superlative most ursine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
   • 1832, Godfrey Mundy, Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India, London: John Murray, Vol. 1, Chapter VI, p. 320, [1]

     The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 8, [2]

     […] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […]

   • 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 77, [3]

     […] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.

2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae.
   • 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, [4]
3. (entomology, of caterpillars) Covered in stiff bristles.

Synonyms

• bearlike
• bearly

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ursine (plural ursines)

1. (zoology) A bear.

Anagrams

• insure, inures, nursie, rusine, urines

Latin

Adjective

urs?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of urs?nus