Definition of barb

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

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Barde :: Barde (n.) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.].
Wattle :: Wattle (n.) Barbel of a fish.
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)..
Immanity :: Immanity (n.) The state or quality of being immane; barbarity.
Fell :: Fell (a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
Gaff :: Gaff (n.) A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish..
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..
Rhubarby :: Rhubarby (a.) Like rhubarb.
Truculent :: Truculent (a.) Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia..
Barbarism :: Barbarism (n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness..
Barbarize :: Barbarize (v. i.) To become barbarous.
Emu Wren :: Emu wren () A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers..
Heathen :: Heathen (a.) Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
Tonsor :: Tonsor (n.) A barber.
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..
Grain :: Grain (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points..
Pheon :: Pheon (n.) A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge..
Lammergeier :: Lammergeier (n.) A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them
Emodin :: Emodin (n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei)..
Barbated :: Barbated (a.) Having barbed points.
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