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Barbacanage :: Barbacanage (n.) See Barbicanage.

Barbate :: Barbate (a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

Mabby :: Mabby (n.) A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.

Barbarous :: Barbarous (a.) Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.

Barbarian :: Barbarian (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state..

Barbarism :: Barbarism (n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness..

Barbellate :: Barbellate (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point..

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..

Rhubarb :: Rhubarb (n.) The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine..

Nematognathi :: Nematognathi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid..

Barbarity :: Barbarity (n.) Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.

Gaff :: Gaff (v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon..

Chrysophane :: Chrysophane (n.) A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition..

Berberine :: Berberine (n.) An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants..

Patience :: Patience (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb..

Fellness :: Fellness (n.) The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.

Immanity :: Immanity (n.) The state or quality of being immane; barbarity.

Unbarbed :: Unbarbed (a.) Not shaven.

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..

Cutthroat :: Cutthroat (a.) Murderous; cruel; barbarous.

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