barbed
adjectiveverbattested in dialogue
- //bɑː(ɹ)bd//
Having barbs.
adjective
- 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
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.
The cross barbed has its limbs terminated by arrow-heads; it is sometimes emblazoned cramponée and tournée, but Edmondson gives the last name to a totally different cross, one not unlike the cross fourchée.
- 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)
About the year 1446, he carried, as by our old books of blazons, quarterly, first and fourth Marr; second and third Lyle, as above blazoned; for crest, a cock or, crested and barbed gules: motto, An I may; supported by two[…]
- 4
Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).
PLANT (?Plantagenet). Arg. a rose gu. seeded or barbed vert.
- 5
Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
- 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
verb
- 1
Also a form of barbsimple past and past participle of barb
Forms
- comparative
- more barbed
- superlative
- most barbed