Word Meanings - BARBELLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to BARBELLATE)

• 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.