Definition of barb

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Barb (n.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

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Barbigerous :: Barbigerous (a.) Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
Drabble :: Drabble (v. i.) To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels..
Barbarizing :: Barbarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barbariz.
Barbacan :: Barbacan (n.) See Barbican.
Barbarous :: Barbarous (a.) Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
Lycine :: Lycine (n.) A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.
Savage :: Savage (a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit..
Barbara :: Barbara (n.) 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.
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.
Hamulus :: Hamulus (n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather.
Civil :: Civil (a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.
Semibarbarian :: Semibarbarian (n.) One partly civilized.
Sandarac :: Sandarac (n.) A white or yellow resin obtained from a Barbary tree (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for pounce; -- probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral..
Violuric :: Violuric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitroso derivative of barbituric acid. It is obtained as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts..
Barbecue :: Barbecue (v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog..
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..
Semibarbarism :: Semibarbarism (n.) The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
Tramontane :: Tramontane (a.) Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous..
Sadr :: Sadr (n.) A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Z. lotus); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See Lotus (b)..
Barb :: Barb (n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it..
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