[f. BARB v., sb.1 + -ED.]
† 1. Bearded. Obs. rare.
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 206. Barbed (i. e. Barbam habens), Barbatus.
† 2. Wearing a BARB (sense 3). Obs.
1526. Skelton, Magnyf., 1000. Barbyd lyke a nonne.
1601. W. Parry, Sherley’s Trav. (1863), 16. Their women are … very faire, barbed every where.
3. Her. Having a calyx ‘coloured proper.’
1611. Gwillim, Heraldry, III. ix. 110. A rose gules Barbed and Seeded.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xi. 70. The term barbed denotes the small green leaves, the points of which appear about an heraldic rose.
4. Furnished with a barb or barbs.
1611. Bible, Job xli. 7. Canst thou fill his skinne with barbed yrons?
1718. Pope, Odyss., IV. 499. Bait the barb’d steel.
1870. Bryant, Homer, I. VIII. 251. Eight barbèd shafts I sent.
