<span class="searchmatch">set</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">bristles</span> (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">sets</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">bristles</span>, present participle setting <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">bristles</span>, simple past and past...
prepare, assemble, configure <span class="searchmatch">set</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> camp <span class="searchmatch">set</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">bristles</span> <span class="searchmatch">set</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> rest <span class="searchmatch">set</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> staff <span class="searchmatch">set</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> shop <span class="searchmatch">set</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> someone's birse to ready something...
From <span class="searchmatch">up</span>- + stare. upstare (third-person singular simple present upstares, present participle upstaring, simple past and past participle upstared) (intransitive...
my hart! // My ſtiffned haire ſtands vpright on my head, // As doe the <span class="searchmatch">briſtles</span> of a porcupine. 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress...
London: Jacob Tonson, page 106: His [the boar’s] Neck shoots <span class="searchmatch">up</span> a thick-<span class="searchmatch">set</span> thorny Wood; His <span class="searchmatch">bristled</span> Back a Trench impal’d appears, And stands erected, like...
plural brushes) An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible <span class="searchmatch">bristles</span> or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes...
Africa, etc.) From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“<span class="searchmatch">up</span> to”). (stressed) (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒn.tuː/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔn.tu/ (Northern...
mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung <span class="searchmatch">up</span> among the washing-machines and television <span class="searchmatch">sets</span> in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by...
to <span class="searchmatch">set</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> a sort of men in such distance above their brethren; to perk over them, and suck them of their goods by tricks […] perk <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> ears perk <span class="searchmatch">up</span> perky...
about <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> business go about <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> day go about to gone north about green about the gills hang about haulabout have a way about <span class="searchmatch">one</span> have <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> mind about...