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Definition of barb

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Barb (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else..

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Barbel :: Barbel (n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

Barbacan :: Barbacan (n.) 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..

Savage :: Savage (a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit..

Wire-tailed :: Wire-tailed (a.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules..

Barble :: Barble (n.) See Barbel.

Arrow :: Arrow (n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow..

Barbicel :: Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

Barbarize :: Barbarize (v. i.) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.

Fork :: Fork (n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow..

Barbering :: Barbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barbe.

Unhumanize :: Unhumanize (v. t.) To render inhuman or barbarous.

Savage :: Savage (n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian..

Barbarian :: Barbarian (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity..

Boxthorn :: Boxthorn (n.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum..

Rhabarbarin :: Rhabarbarin (n.) Alt. of Rhabarbarin.

Cyprinoid :: Cyprinoid (n.) One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc..

Dyaks :: Dyaks (n. pl.) The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices..

Tonsor :: Tonsor (n.) A barber.

Rhabarbarine :: Rhabarbarine (n.) Chrysophanic acid.

Barbarousness :: Barbarousness (n.) The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.