3. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire.
Milton.
Barb, n. [F. barbe, fr. Barbarie.] 1. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
2. (Zoöl.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
Barb, n. [Corrupted fr. bard.] Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.
Bar"ba*can (&?;), n. See Barbican.
Bar"ba*can*age (&?;), n. See Barbicanage.
Bar*ba"di*an (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to Barbados. -- n. A native of Barbados.
{ Bar*ba"dos or Bar*ba"does } (&?;), n. A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.
||Bar"ba*ra (&?;), n. [Coined by logicians.] (Logic) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. Whately.
Bar`ba*resque" (&?;), a. Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. De Quincey.