(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.
Kingfish
Definition:
(n.) An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.
(n.) The opah.
(n.) The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero.
(n.) The queenfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, there was some positive news in the UK retail sector as B&Q owner, Kingfisher , saw sales in the country increase 5.7% during the three months to end of October, compared with a year earlier.
(2) Nine current FTSE 100 chief executives, including Smith Group's Philip Bowman, Kingfisher's Ian Cheshire, Diageo's Paul Welsh and Centrica's Sam Laidlaw sit on the remuneration committees of fellow blue chip companies.
(3) Kingfisher, the UK home improvement retailer, announced a set of ambitious net positive targets in 2012 including its goal of “global net reforestation”.
(4) In contrast, the Kingfisher team works in one small room so that all information gathered is instantly shared: “We even want our phone calls overheard by the rest of the team,” says MacInnes, “because we’ve realised the power of sharing even the smallest piece of information with the rest of the team.
(5) Sutherland, who took the helm on May 1 after leaving Kingfisher’s B&Q, said on the group’s Facebook page that “an individual or individuals” were determined to undermine him.
(6) There was an altercation with guards, after which the roommate was removed to the Kingfisher isolation unit for three days.
(7) Keep your eyes peeled for Spawning salmon or sea trout, kingfishers or dippers, or even an otter or a seal in the river.
(8) In 2009, parent company Kingfisher's new boss Ian Cheshire announced a repositioning of the China business as losses mounted to £50m.
(9) That’s how you start putting together the jigsaw.” Kingfisher’s approach involves social workers, whose caseloads are considerably lighter than is usual, adopting the skills of detectives – and detectives using the skills of social workers.
(10) "The actual position is not changed because of this order," Kingfisher said in a statement this weekend.
(11) In a letter to the Financial Times, Ian Cheshire, chief executive of Kingfisher, Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, and Andy Clarke, chief executive of Asda, called for the moratorium.
(12) Kingfisher refused to comment on Monday's meeting, which was described as "inconclusive" in the local media.
(13) Kingfishers flashed by, bright white egrets pottered around but there was no sign of the beavers.
(14) The billionaire liquor baron fled to the UK last year owing hundreds of millions of dollars to creditors and facing charges including money laundering, in connection to the collapse of his business venture Kingfisher Airlines.
(15) Sir Ian Cheshire , outgoing boss of B&Q Kingfisher, is another retailer with a track record of taking on troubled firms.
(16) 1984 British retailer Kingfisher buys Comet for £129m.
(17) Wade across the river – catch a flash of kingfisher green among the mangroves – and two miles of deserted beach lie ahead.
(18) Two of 9 sacred kingfishers were infected with ovoid-truncated, 22 (19-25) X 16 (12-18) micron oocysts of E. duncani.
(19) The distribution of delta5 3beta-hydroxüsteroid dehydrogenase (delta5 3beta-HSDH), 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17beta-HSDH), Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH) and NADH-diaphorase enzymes has been histochemically studied in the interrenal gland and the ovary of the stork-billed kingfisher, Pelargopsis capensis (Linn.).
(20) Controlled by the flamboyant Mallya – the 56-year-old self-styled "King of Good Times" – Kingfisher's fleet has been grounded since the start of the month when a staff protest turned violent.