barbed

comparative more barbed · superlative most barbed

1. Having barbs.

   COCKATRICE an imaginary monster resembling a wivern with the head of a cock, the tongue barbed. It occurs displayed, but is ordinarily borne with the wings endorsed.

   1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 81

2. governmentHaving barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.

   The cross barbed has its limbs terminated by arrow-heads; it is sometimes emblazoned cramponée and tournée, but Edmondson gives the last name to a totally different cross, one not unlike the cross fourchée.

   1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, A. B. C. of Heraldry, page 24

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   Crest : A demi-cockatrice or, crested gules, stricken through the back of the neck with an arrow sable, barbed and flighted argent. Sable, two bars humettée or between a cock in fesse and a swan in chief and in base argent.

   1899, Thomas Benolt, The Visitations of the County of Surrey: Made and Taken in the Years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms ; 1572 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms ; and 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herald, and Augustin Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, Marshals and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, page 232

3. governmentHaving gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.

   Ex. A Cock barbed and crested, (that is, wattled and combed, which signifies the Comb and Gills of a Cock, when born of a different Tincture from the Body)

   1729, Abel Boyer, Le Grand théâtre de l'honneur et de noblesse [assisted by John Innes?] (overall work in French and English), page 77

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   About the year 1446, he carried, as by our old books of blazons, quarterly, first and fourth Marr; second and third Lyle, as above blazoned; for crest, a cock or, crested and barbed gules: motto, An I may; supported by two[…]

   1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, speculative and practical: with the true art of Blazon ... Illustrated with suitable examples of armorial figures, and achievements of the most considerable surnames and families in Scotland ..., page 216

4. governmentHaving sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).

   PLANT (?Plantagenet). Arg. a rose gu. seeded or barbed vert.

   1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 859

5. usuallyDeliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
6. Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.

   Your Lordship may remember in your reading, that there were many Earles could bring into the field a thousand Barbed horses

   1638, Walter Raleigh, The Prerogative of Parliaments

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of barb