Bristle vs. Fur — What's the Difference?

A bristle is a stiff hair or feather (natural or artificial), either on an animal, such as a pig, a plant, or on a tool such as a brush or broom.

Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of many different animals, particularly mammals. It consists of a combination of oily guard hair on top and thick underfur beneath.

A stiff hair.

A member of a Muslim people of the mountainous and desert regions of south-western Sudan.

A stiff hairlike structure

The language of the Fur, an isolated member of the Nilo-Saharan family, with about 500,000 speakers.

To stand stiffly on end like bristles

Coat or clog with a deposit

To raise the bristles

Covered with or made from a particular type of fur

To react in an angry or offended manner

Level (floor or wall timbers) by inserting strips of wood

To be covered or thick with or as if with bristles

Relating to the Fur or their language.

To cause to stand erect like bristles; stiffen.

The thick coat of soft hair covering the skin of certain mammals.

To furnish or supply with bristles.

The hair-covered, dressed pelt of such a mammal, used in making garments and as trimming or decoration.

To make bristly; ruffle.

A garment made of or lined with the dressed pelt of a mammal.

A stiff or coarse hair, usually and especially on a nonhuman mammal.

See fake fur.

A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.

A furlike coating

The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.

To cover, line, or trim with fur.

To rise or stand erect, like bristles.

To cover or coat as if with fur.

To abound, to have an abundance of something, especially something jutting out.

To line (a wall or floor) with furring.

(with at) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.

The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.

To fix a bristle to.

The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans.

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

A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.

A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.

A coating, lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.

To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; - sometimes with up.

A thick pile of fabric.

To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.

The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.

To rise or stand erect, like bristles.

The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.

To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.

The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.

To show defiance or indignation.

(heraldry) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures.

A stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic

Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).

A stiff hair

A furry; a member of the furry subculture.

Be in a state of movement or action;

Pubic hair.

Rise up as in fear;

Sexual attractiveness.

(transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.

(intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.

To level a surface by applying furring to it.

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The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.

Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.

Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).

Any coating considered as resembling fur

One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.

Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.

To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.

To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.

To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.

The dressed hairy coat of a mammal

Dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)

A garment made of fur