[bahrb] 
| 1. | a point or pointed part projecting backward from a main point, as of a fishhook or arrowhead. |
| 2. | an obviously or openly unpleasant or carping remark. |
| 3. | Botany, Zoology. a hooked or sharp bristle. |
| 4. | Ornithology. one of the processes attached to the rachis of a feather. |
| 5. | one of a breed of domestic pigeons, similar to the carriers or homers, having a short, broad bill. |
| 6. | any of numerous, small, Old World cyprinid fishes of the genera Barbus and Puntius, often kept in aquariums. |
| 7. | Usually, barbs. Veterinary Pathology. a small protuberance under the tongue in horses and cattle, esp. when inflamed and swollen. |
| 8. | Also, barbe. a linen covering for the throat and breast, formerly worn by women mourners and now only by some nuns. |
| 9. | Obsolete. a beard. |
| 10. | to furnish with a barb or barbs. |
[bahrb] | one of a breed of horses raised originally in Barbary. |
| barb 1 (bärb) n.
To provide or furnish with a barb. [Middle English barbe, from Old French, beard, from Latin barba; see bhardh-ā- in Indo-European roots.] |
| barb 2 (bärb) n.
[French barbe, from Italian barbero, Berber, from Vulgar Latin Barbaria, Barbary States, from Latin barbarus, barbarous; see barbarous.] |
| bar·bel 1 (bär'bəl) n. One of the slender, whiskerlike tactile organs extending from the head of certain fishes, such as catfishes. Also called barb1. [Obsolete French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin barbula, diminutive of Late Latin barbus, beard, from Latin barba; see bhardh-ā- in Indo-European roots.] |
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