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on of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything Bagehot. To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes. The Century.

Formation of teeth; toothed form. [R.] How did it [a bill] get its barb, its dentation Paley.

an (Blackw. Mag.). -- Devil worship, worship of the power of evil; -- still practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil forces of nature are of equal power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping),…

dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay. Mrs. Barbauld.

of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton.

on fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.

To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.

al and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.

e East; the kings of the East. The gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. Milton.

A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak.

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

enlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

e of day, Eye of the morning, Eye of heaven, the sun. "So gently shuts the eye day." Mrs. Barbauld. -- Eye of a ship, the foremost part in the bows of a ship, where, formerly, eyes were painted; also, the hawser holes. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Half an eye, very imperfect sight; a careless glance; as, to see a thing with h…

Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak.

The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity. Spenser.

, adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. Spenser.

A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish. Knight.

nto which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. Addison.

A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.