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Word Meanings - BARBELLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

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  • 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.

 

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