Definition of barb

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Barb (v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc..

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Malpighia :: Malpighia (n.) A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.
Immanity :: Immanity (n.) The state or quality of being immane; barbarity.
Barbadian :: Barbadian (n.) A native of Barbados.
Semibarbarism :: Semibarbarism (n.) The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
Magot :: Magot (n.) The Barbary ape.
Binny :: Binny (n.) A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food..
Arrow Grass :: Arrow grass (n.) An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads..
Pieplant :: Pieplant (n.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb..
Harl :: Harl (n.) A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies..
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.
Debarb :: Debarb (v. t.) To deprive of the beard.
Berberry :: Berberry (n.) See Barberry.
Uncivilization :: Uncivilization (n.) The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
Barbule :: Barbule (n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather..
Barber :: Barber (n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons..
Barbecue :: Barbecue (n.) A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole..
Pixie :: Pixie (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring..
Barbarizing :: Barbarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barbariz.
Barb :: Barb (v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of.
Hyperotreta :: Hyperotreta (n. pl.) An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between the nasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish..
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