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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Barble :: Barble (n.) See Barbel.
Rheic :: Rheic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum)..
Barbarities :: Barbarities (pl. ) of Barbarit.
Unhumanize :: Unhumanize (v. t.) To render inhuman or barbarous.
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language..
Podophyllum :: Podophyllum (n.) A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi..
Patience :: Patience (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb..
Sprigged :: Sprig (n.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
Stahlian :: Stagworm (n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils..
Couvade :: Couvade (n.) A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill..
Savage :: Savage (a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit..
Rheum :: Rheum (n.) A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.
Barbadian :: Barbadian (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados.
Immanity :: Immanity (n.) The state or quality of being immane; barbarity.
Semibarbarian :: Semibarbarian (n.) One partly civilized.
Berberry :: Berberry (n.) See Barberry.
Tattoo :: Tattoo (n.) An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors..
Rockling :: Rockling (n.) Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels..
Barbre :: Barbre (a.) Barbarian.
Barbarity :: Barbarity (n.) Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.
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