▪ I. barbed, ppl. a.1
(bɑːbd)
[f. barb v., n.1 + -ed.]
† 1. Bearded. Obs. rare.
| 1693 W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 206 Barbed (i.e. Barbam habens), Barbatus. |
† 2. Wearing a barb (sense 3). Obs.
| 1526 Skelton Magnyf. 1000 Barbyd lyke a nonne. 1601 W. Parry Sherley's Trav. (1863) 16 Their women are..very faire, barbed every where. |
3. Her. Having a calyx ‘coloured proper.’
| 1611 J. Guillim Heraldry iii. ix. 110 A rose gules Barbed and Seeded. 1864 Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xi. 70 The term barbed denotes the small green leaves, the points of which appear about an heraldic rose. |
4. a. Furnished with a barb or barbs.
| 1611 Bible Job xli. 7 Canst thou fill his skinne with barbed yrons? 1718 Pope Odyss. iv. 499 Bait the barb'd steel. 1870 Bryant Homer I. viii. 251 Eight barbèd shafts I sent. |
b. barbed wire: see wire n. 1 e.
▪ II. barbed, ppl. a.2
(bɑːbd, ˈbɑːbɪd)
[f. barb n.2 + -ed.]
Of a horse: Armed or caparisoned with a barb or bard; properly barded.
| 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. xxvii. lvii, My fayre barbed stede. a 1618 Raleigh Prerog. Parl. (1628) 27 Many Earles could bring into the field a thousand Barbed horses. a 1711 Ken Edmund Wks. 1721 II. 84 As a barb'd Steed in Fight, who nothing fears. 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles vi. xxiii, Or what may their short swords avail, 'Gainst barbed horse and shirts of mail? |