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Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles. Gray.

A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. -- Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Gooseberry fool. See lst Fool. -- Gooseberry worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma…

to the throat; to satiate. The giant gorged with flesh. Addison. Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. Dryden.

en to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these.

One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person. Chesterfield.

Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.

To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.

frican herb (Herpagophytum leptocarpum) having the woody fruits armed with long hooked or barbed thorns by which they adhere to cattle, causing intense annoyance. -- Grapple shot (Life-saving Service), a projectile, to which are attached hinged claws to catch in a ship's rigging or to hold in the ground; -- called als…

One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.

A hooked barbicel of a feather.

A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies. [Written also herl.]

or discharged from a gun. Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale.

Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.

The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.

e), with soft tongue- shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.

r of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between tionnasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. [Written also Hyperotreti.]

One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.

The state or quality of being immane; barbarity. [R.] Shak.