Bar"bel*late (-lt), a. [See 1st Barb.] (Bot.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.
Bar*bel"lu*late (bär*bl"l*lt), a. (Bot.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
Bar"ber (bär"br), n. [OE. barbour, OF. barbeor, F. barbier, as if fr. an assumed L. barbator, fr. barba beard. See 1st Barb.] One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
Barber's itch. See under Itch.
Formerly the barber practiced some offices of surgery, such as letting blood and pulling teeth. Hence such terms as barber surgeon (old form barber chirurgeon), barber surgery, etc.
Bar"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barbered (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Barbering.] To shave and dress the beard or hair of. Shak.
Bar"ber fish. (Zoöl.) See Surgeon fish.