(n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
(n.) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
(n.) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
(n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
(n.) A bit for a horse.
(n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.
(n.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.
(n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
(v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of.
(v. t.) To clip; to mow.
(v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
(n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
(n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
(n.) Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study, in vitro treatment of mouse bone marrow with antisera prepared in rabbits against brain tissue from rats (BARB) or hamsters (RAHB) also reduced the CFU content of the mouse marrow.
(2) "So, welcome to the real North Korea" declared Sweeney dramatically, standing inside a barbed wire fence apparently built to keep ordinary people away from his tour group's hotel.
(3) An analysis of BBC1, compiled using Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) figures, of the hours between 6pm and 10pm from 15 January, when the first episode of Call the Midwife was screened, to 5 February, showed that 90% of the audience was over 35, meaning just 719,000 under-35s were watching.
(4) Beneath the gold-leafed dome, one of them read aloud from a text eulogising France's founding fathers, ending with a rousing, "Long live the France of our fathers, long live La Barbe!"
(5) Kinetics of elongation and depolymerization from the pointed end were measured in fluorescence assays using pyrenylactin filaments capped at the barbed end by villin.
(6) Nomberg-Przytyk also recounts the death of Avram Ovitz, the leader of the group: "The old midget wanted his wife" and tried to slip through the barbed wire; a guard spotted him and, when Avram got close enough, shot him.
(7) The ad, for web hosting service CrazyDomains.co.uk, featured the Barb Wire star in a boardroom full of men.
(8) Epidermal cells that would otherwise produce only alpha keratin in reticulate scales are induced to reorganize and differentiate into barb ridge cells that accumulate feather beta keratins.
(9) She said no surprises about the election date should mean "no excuses", a clear barb at the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, whom she has criticised as announcing "platitudes not policies" and giving few costings for his promises.
(10) Seventy-seven flexor tendon lesions in zone I have been reinserted by the "rope down" technique using the Jennings barb-wire.
(11) As a result, at high rates of filament growth a transient cap of ATP-actin subunits exists at the ends of elongating filaments, and at steady state a stabilizing cap of ADP.Pi-actin subunits exists at the barbed ends of filaments.
(12) After a marathon of tetchy bilateral talks and barbed plenary speeches, the Chinese premier – who refused to enter the negotiations directly – flew back to Beijing without any public comment.
(13) All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC and some other channels including Sky1) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated.
(14) Dissociation of the gelsolin-actin complex from the barbed ends can be calculated to be rather slow.
(15) It’s like you go through some crazy inter-dimensional vortex,” Barbe said.
(16) There were some security forces as well, I think employed by the Australians, waiting around outside, and they had coils of barbed wire at the ready.
(17) The two men, from different political camps, have a polite relationship that has sometimes been barbed and punctuated by stinging Conservative quips about French leftwing tax-and-spend policies .
(18) Aginactin is a barbed-end capping protein by several criteria.
(19) And he trades barbs and disapproving glares with Scarlett Johansson 's Black Widow, who you will want to see in her own movie after this.
(20) The simplest explanation for these findings is that gelsolin caps the barbed ends of the filaments in the resting platelet.
Barbary
Definition:
(n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Algeria contains approximately 23% (5,500 maximum) of the total number of surviving Barbary macaques in North Africa.
(2) However, the hybrid follicles develop very rapidly after hatching, and laying begins earlier in the hybrid than in Peking and Barbary ducks.
(3) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
(4) Of 18 species' erythrocytes tested only sheep, Barbary sheep and Mouflon erythrocytes formed rosettes in similar percentages.
(5) Mary Ann Singleton, a naïve young secretary from Cleveland, Ohio, moves into an apartment on 28 Barbary Lane.
(6) Ouabain-sensitive ATPase in membranes from HK and LK Barbary sheep red cells showed kinetics characteristic of HK and LK membranes of domestic goats and sheep; the ATPase of LK Barbary sheep membranes sensitized with anti-L was stimulated 2-fold due to an alteration in the internal sodium and potassium affinities in favour of sodium.
(7) Handing a newbie the keys to 28 Barbary Lane is one of life's simplest joys – like Mrs Madrigal taping a joint to Mary Ann's door on her first night.
(8) Rank relations of more than 100 juvenile and subadult natal Barbary macaque males were analyzed.
(9) The most important stop on our pilgrimage is Macondray Lane – the inspiration for Barbary Lane.
(10) A case of colitis cystica superficialis is described in a Barbary ape.
(11) Barbari has now been arrested and charged with possessing weapons.
(12) Serologic reactors were found to IBR in 3 Barbery sheep, BT in 6 Barbary sheep and 6 mule deer and EHD in 3 Barbary sheep and 4 mule deer.
(13) As hatching the number of left ovary germinal cells of the female hybrid (Anas platyrhynchos x Cairina moschata) is weaker than that of the Peking and Barbary females because the small size of the genital crest limites the number of colonising germinal cells.
(14) Usually described as a cedar forest monkey, the Barbary macaque in effect has colonized a great variety of habitat types.
(15) The anti-human-STH immunserum applied on hypophysis sections of adults males and females Peking (Anas platyrhynchos L.) Barbary (Cairina moschata L.) and Hybrid (from the mating male Peking X female Barbary) ducks, marks orangeophils, oval- or round shaped, PAS negative cells exclusively localized in the caudal lobe of the pars distalis.
(16) Evidence is presented that both Lp and Ll antigens are present on LK Barbary sheep red cells.
(17) Back in the 1950s, during celebrations for schoolchildren graduating, they used to cover up Neptune,” Barbari added.
(18) Concentrations of potassium and iron were measured in blood samples of 15 zoo-living Barbary sheep by atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
(19) Local writer Elisa Barbari had chosen the statue, which shows Neptune naked and holding a trident, to illustrate her Facebook page “Stories, curiosities and views of Bologna.” But the Nettuno picture fell foul of the social media giant’s privacy policies, the Daily Telegraph reported .
(20) They've jazzed it up with a "monkey forest", where you can see 140 Barbary macaques at play, a high ropes course, an adventure playground and a lakeside walk with 15 fairies to spot.