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adj. Having barbs.

adj. Cutting; stinging: barbed criticism; barbed statements.

adj. Having barbs

adj. Bearded (also applied to roses).

v. Simple past tense and past participle of barb.

adj. Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See barded (which is the proper form.)

adj. Furnished with a barb or barbs.

Shaved; trimmed; having the beard dressed.

Furnished with barbs, as an arrow, the point of a fish-hook, and the like: as, “arrows barbed with fire,”

“a barbed proboscis,”

In heraldry: Having barbs: said of the rose used as a bearing. The barbs are commonly colored green, and the blazon is a rose gules barbed proper.

Having gills or wattles, as a cock: as, a cock sable, barbed or (that is, a black cock having golden gills). Also called wattled.

Having the ends made with barbs like those of an arrow-head: said especially of a cross of this form. Also called bearded.

Same as barded.

adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

adj. capable of wounding

"Lee is essentially a satirist who redefines the term barbed wit; more traditional in his approach than say, Chris Morris, but no less appalled and disgusted at what has become of us."

armed    sarcastic   

barbed shot    barbed wire    barbed bolt   

barded   

barbed wire   

barb   

garbed   

jagged    razor-sharp    sharp-pointed    blunt    red-hot    stubby    needle-pointed    thorny    wicked-looking    barbed wire