Barb

a. To furnish with barbs, as an arrow, .To put armor on a horse; to furnish a horse with ar mor. "On barbed steeds they rode, in proud array, Thick as the college of the bees in May."-Dryden. Barbacena, ( bar - ba - sai'na ,) a town of Brazil, prov. of Minas-Geraes, 125 m. from Rio Janeiro; pop . of town and district, 12,000. Barbacoas, ( bar - ba - kdas ,) a city of Quito, in the province of Esmeraldas, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, 120 miles from Quito. Lat. 1°42′ S.; Lon. 78°8′ W.-2. A town of South America, in the province of Venezuela, at the source of the Tucuyo. - 3. A village in the same province, E. of Lake Maracaibo.