Birse

[bә:s]

Definition

(n.) A bristle or bristles.

Typed by Leigh

Definition

n. bristle.—adj. Birs′y.—To lick the birse to draw a hog's bristle through the mouth—part of the ceremony of citizenship in Selkirk; To set up one's birse to rouse the wrath of from the habit of animals bristling up when enraged.

Checker: Wyatt