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Down :: Down (n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets..

Hamulus :: Hamulus (n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather.

Barbaic :: Barbaic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement..

Unbarbed :: Unbarbed (a.) Not shaven.

Barbarism :: Barbarism (n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.

Barbel :: Barbel (n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3..

Barbule :: Barbule (n.) A very minute barb or beard.

Barbecue :: Barbecue (v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.

Barbary :: Barbary (n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon..

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..

Rheum :: Rheum (n.) A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.

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

Barb :: Barb (v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of.

Magot :: Magot (n.) The Barbary ape.

Couscousou :: Couscousou (n.) A favorite dish in Barbary. See Couscous.

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..

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

Barb :: Barb (n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it..

Barbicanage :: Barbicanage (n.) Alt. of Barbacanag.

Zygodactylae :: Zygodactylae (n. pl.) The zygodactylous birds. In a restricted sense applied to a division of birds which includes the barbets, toucans, honey guides, and other related birds..

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