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rnish 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.

Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden.

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

urus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden.

g spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.

Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer.

A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.

lowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.

f the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.

A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.

ng a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.

A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear." Dryden.

The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points. [Written also cronel.] Grose.

y, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

ach other throughout. None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.

living body or its bulk. [Obs.] For he was strong, and of so mighty corse As ever wielded spear in warlike hand. Spenser.

ing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract. To couch a spear or lance, to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest. He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career. Sir W. Scott. To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. Mortimer.…

The iron head of a tilting spear.