Word Meanings - BARBELLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.
Related words: (words related to BARBELLATE)
- BARBAROUS
slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - BARBADIAN
Of or pertaining to Barbados. -- n. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - BARBITON
An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - BARBARIAN
1. A foreigner. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 2. A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state. 3. A person destitute of culture. - BARBACANAGE
See BARBICANAGE - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - BARBELLULATE
Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs. - BARBEL
A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished. - BARBICEL
One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers. - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - BARBLE
See BARBEL - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - RHABARBARIN; RHABARBARINE
Chrysophanic acid. - REBARBARIZE
To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion, n. Germany . . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. Sir W. Hamilton. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - RESTIFF
Restive. - DEBARB
To deprive of the beard. Bailey. - TROIS POINT
The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.