barnacled, ppl. a.
(ˈbɑːnək(ə)ld)
a. Covered with barnacles. Also fig. b. colloq. Wearing spectacles.
| 1691 T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 80 Cleaned with..Scrapers, if barnicled. 1725 New Canting Dict. s.v. Barnacles, The Cuffin Quire with his Nose Barnacled..the Justice of Peace with his Spectacles on. 1829 Olio III. 55/2 The general reader and spokesman was ready barnacled for his office. 1878 R. Stevenson Inland Voy. 6 A gleam of spectacles. For though handsome lads, they were all (in the Scotch phrase) barnacled. 1884 Blackw. Mag. Oct. 523 My barnacled barque Drags..heavily on. 1890 Jrnl. Educ. 1 Mar. 149/2 With their brains barnacled over with shellfish facts. 1900 J. L. Allen Incr. Purpose xvi. 222 There might have been..fewer creeds barnacled in the World's Ship of Souls. |