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

Barbacan :: Barbacan (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own..

Barb :: Barb (n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary..

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

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

Barbiers :: Barbiers (n.) A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form..

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

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

Tattoo :: Tattoo (n.) An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors..

Barbule :: Barbule (n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather..

Vandal :: Vandal (n.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature..

Inhumanly :: Inhumanly (adv.) In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.

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.

Usnea :: Usnea (n.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests..

Savage :: Savage (n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian..

Rockling :: Rockling (n.) Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels..

Eelspear :: Eelspear (n.) A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

Aroph :: Aroph (n.) A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.

Barbing :: Barbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bar.

Barbarous :: Barbarous (a.) Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.

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