[UN-1 8 + BARBED ppl. a.1] Not furnished with a barb or barbs. Also fig.
1844. J. Tomlin, Mission. Jrnls., 84. The point sharp as the finest needle, but unbarbed.
1880. Dawson, 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.)
1863. Miss Braddon, Aurora Floyd, i. The busy tongues … were not unbarbed by malice.
