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▪ I. † unˈbarbed, ppl. a.1 Obs.
[un-1 8. See barb v. 1 and 2.]
1. Of cloth: Not barbed or clipped.
1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 13 §1 No wollen cloth..shuld be conveyed ouer the See unrowed, unbarbed and unshorne. 1541–2Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 19 Any coloured Clothe above the value of thre poundes, unrowed, unbarbed or unshorne. 1643Docq. Lett. Pat. at Oxf. (1837) 363 To transporte all wollen clothes vnrowed, vnbarbd, vnshorne, and not fully drest.
2. poet. Unmown, uncut.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. 112 When with his hounds The laboring Hunter tufts the thicke unbarbed grounds Where harbor'd is the Hart. 1652Benlowes Theoph. xii. lvii, The Virgin-meads, whose gaies Unbarb'd perk up to prank the curled stream.
▪ II. unˈbarbed, ppl. a.2
[un-1 8 + barbed ppl. a.2]
Unarmed; not caparisoned; unbarded.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Equus patens vulneri, a horse vnbarbed, and in daunger to be wounded. 1607Shakes. Cor. iii. ii. 99 Must I goe shew them my vnbarb'd Sconce?
▪ III. unˈbarbed, ppl. a.3
[un-1 8 + barbed ppl. a.1]
Not furnished with a barb or barbs. Also fig.
1844J. Tomlin Mission. Jrnls. 84 The point sharp as the finest needle, but unbarbed. 1880Dawson Fossil Men v. (1882) 135 In the north barbed bone spears were used, and also little unbarbed bones with two elastic pieces of wood at the sides.
b. Const. by. (Cf. barb v. 4.)
1863M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd i, The busy tongues..were not unbarbed by malice. |