Word Meanings - EELSPEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

Related words: (words related to EELSPEAR)

• 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
• BARBADIAN
  Of or pertaining to Barbados. -- n.
• BARBITON
  An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.
• 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
• 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.
• BARBLE
  See BARBEL
• SPEARMAN
  One who is armed with a spear. Acts xxiii. 23.
• BARBARITY
  The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization. 2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay. 3. A barbarous or cruel act. 4. Barbarism; impurity of speech.
• BARBER FISH
  See FISH
• SPEARHEAD
  The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
• SPEARWORT
  A name given to several species of crowfoot which have spear-shaped leaves.
• SPEARY
  Having the form of a spear.
• BARBADOS; BARBADOES
  A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry , a genus of trees of the West Indies with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg , a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates.
• BARBERMONGER
  A fop.
• BARBIERS
  A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.
• BARBIZON SCHOOL; BARBISON SCHOOL
  A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with
• BARBATED
  Having barbed points. A dart uncommonly barbated. T. Warton.
• 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.
• DEBARB
  To deprive of the beard. Bailey.
• SEMIBARBARIC
  Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his