- 3. Uncouth (as a word or an expression), harsh, rugged, vulgar, contrary to good usage, full of impurities,
full of infelicities.
Barbe, Barb, n.
- 1. Housing, piece of housing.
- 2. Horse-armor, horse-mail (horse-armor), boss.
Barbed, a.
- 1. Bearded.
- 2. Clad in armor (said of horses), mailed, in barbes, furnished with barbes.
Barberry, n. Pepperidge-bush or pipperidgebush (Berberis vulgaris).
Bard, n.
- 1. Harper, minstrel, poet.
- 2. Larding-strip, larding-bacon, bacon-strip.
Barde, n. Horse-trappings, horse-armor, barbes.
Barded, a. Caparisoned, armed, barbed.
Bare, a.
- 1. Naked, nude, denuded, uncovered, unclothed, undressed, exposed, unprotected, unsheltered, unshielded,
detected.
- 2. Simple, sheer, mere, alone.
- 3. Unadorned, bald, undecorated, unfurnished, meagre.
- 4. Poor, destitute, indigent, ill-supplied, empty.
Bare, v. a. Strip, uncover, make bare. See preceding adjective.
Bareback, a. and ad. Without a saddle, on an unsaddled horse.
Barebacked, a. Unsaddled.