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Barbed

//bɑː(ɹ)bd// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having barbs.

    "COCKATRICE an imaginary monster resembling a wivern with the head of a cock, the tongue barbed. It occurs displayed, but is ordinarily borne with the wings endorsed."

  2. 2
    Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.

    "Crest : A demi-cockatrice or, crested gules, stricken through the back of the neck with an arrow sable, barbed and flighted argent. Sable, two bars humettée or between a cock in fesse and a swan in chief and in base argent."

  3. 3
    Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.

    "Ex. A Cock barbed and crested, (that is, wattled and combed, which signifies the Comb and Gills of a Cock, when born of a different Tincture from the Body)"

  4. 4
    Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).

    "PLANT (?Plantagenet). Arg. a rose gu. seeded or barbed vert."

  5. 5
    Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic. usually
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  1. 6
    Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.

    "Your Lordship may remember in your reading, that there were many Earles could bring into the field a thousand Barbed horses"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. wordnet
  2. 2
    capable of wounding wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of barb form-of, participle, past

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