BPage 52
- English Word Barb Definition A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
- English Word Barb Definition To shave or dress the beard of.
- English Word Barb Definition To clip; to mow.
- English Word Barb Definition To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
- English Word Barb Definition The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
- English Word Barb Definition A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
- English Word Barb Definition Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.
- English Word Barbacan Definition See Barbican.
- English Word Barbacan Definition A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
- English Word Barbacan Definition An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.
- English Word Barbacanage Definition See Barbicanage.
- English Word Barbacanage Definition Money paid for the support of a barbican.
- English Word Barbadian Definition Of or pertaining to Barbados.
- English Word Barbadian Definition A native of Barbados.
- English Word Barbadoes Definition A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
- English Word Barbados Definition Alt. of Barbadoes
- English Word Barbaic Definition Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east.
- English Word Barbaic Definition Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement.
- English Word Barbara Definition The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.
- English Word Barbaresque Definition Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture.