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Barbarian :: Barbarian (n.) A foreigner.

Barbarousness :: Barbarousness (n.) The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.

Beardie :: Beardie (n.) The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.

Barbecue :: Barbecue (n.) A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried..

Drabble :: Drabble (v. i.) To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels..

Barbadian :: Barbadian (n.) A native of Barbados.

Beggar''s Ticks :: Beggar's ticks () The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity..

Hound''s-tongue :: Hound's-tongue (n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue..

Barbaresque :: Barbaresque (a.) Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture..

Lycine :: Lycine (n.) A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

Barbered :: Barbered (imp. & p. p.) of Barbe.

Web :: Web (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather..

Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..

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..

Spear :: Spear (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals..

Barbicel :: Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

Uncivilized :: Uncivilized (a.) Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude; barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa..

Glochidiate :: Glochidiate (a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles..

Barbed :: Barbed (a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form..

Incivilization :: Incivilization (n.) The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.

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