birse
/bɜrs/
noun
- A bristle or stiff hair, especially on a hog or brush.
- The artist used a birse brush for the rough texture.
- He plucked a birse from the hog's back.
- The brush was made of natural birse from a boar.
verb
- To bristle; to become stiff or erect, like hair when angry or cold.
- The porcupine birsed its quills in defense.
- The cat's fur birsed up when it saw the dog.
- He birsed with anger at the insult.