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Barbarian. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A very minute barb or beard. Booth.

To deprive of the beard. [Obs.] Bailey.

To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion, n. Germany . . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. Sir W. Hamilton.

Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. Floyer.

Chrysophanic acid.

The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine. Monk's rhubarb. (Bot.) See under Monk. -- Turkey rhubarb (Med.), the roots of Rheum Emodi.

Like rhubarb.

Half barbarous; partially civilized. -- n.

Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.

The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.

Half barbarous.

Not shaven. [Obs.]

A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they. "So would I a done" "A brushes his hat." Shak.

ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

us. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies. [Obs.]

A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. Broad arrow. (a) An arrow with a broad head. (b) A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.

asslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.