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  • English Word Barbel Definition Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3.
  • English Word Barbellate Definition Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.
  • English Word Barbellulate Definition Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
  • English Word Barber Definition One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
  • English Word Barber Definition To shave and dress the beard or hair of.
  • English Word Barber fish Definition See Surgeon fish.
  • English Word Barbered Definition of Barber
  • English Word Barbering Definition of Barber
  • English Word Barbermonger Definition A fop.
  • English Word Barberry Definition A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.
  • English Word Barbet Definition A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
  • English Word Barbet Definition A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
  • English Word Barbet Definition A larva that feeds on aphides.
  • English Word Barbette Definition A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
  • English Word Barbican Definition Alt. of Barbacan
  • English Word Barbicanage Definition Alt. of Barbacanage
  • English Word Barbicel Definition One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.
  • English Word Barbiers Definition A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.
  • English Word Barbigerous Definition Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
  • English Word Barbing Definition of Barb
  • English Word Barbiton Definition An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.
  • English Word Barbituric acid Definition A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea.
  • English Word Barble Definition See Barbel.
  • English Word Barbotine Definition A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.
  • English Word Barbre Definition Barbarian.
  • English Word Barbule Definition A very minute barb or beard.
  • English Word Barbule Definition One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.
  • English Word Barcarolle Definition A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.
  • English Word Barcarolle Definition A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.
  • English Word Barcon Definition A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.