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The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.

The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon. Barbary ape (Zoöl.), an ape (Macacus innus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.

A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.

Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

Having barbed points. A dart uncommonly barbated. T. Warton.

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.) Sir W. Raleigh.

A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

ccupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons. Barber's itch. See under Itch.

See Surgeon fish.

A fop. [Obs.]

made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.

or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or part…

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

Money paid for the support of a barbican. [Obs.]

One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.