barbecue

t. [From the substantive.] To roast a hog or other animal whole, in the manner described under BARBECUE, s. (q. V.). "Old field, with more than harpy throat endued, Cries, Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued." Pope . băr'-bě-cued, pa. par. & a. [BARBECUE, v.] barbed (1), pa. par. & a. [BARB (1), v.] A. Ordinary Language: † 1. Having the beard trimmed. 2. Bearded; furnished with jagged or arrowy points like a hook. The twanging bows Send showers of shafts, that on their barbed points Alternate ruin bear." Philips . "Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook." Thomson: Seasons; Spring, 410. B. Her .: Bearded. Used chiefly- (a) Of the five leaflets in the compound leaf of some roses. (b) Of the point of an arrow. =. barbed (2), pa . par . & a. [BARB, v. (3).] In Wedgwood's opinion corrupted from Fr. bardé (of horses) covered with armour. [BARBED.] Furnished with any of the various kinds of barbs (see BARB, s.), as barbed arrow , barbed shot, barbed wire , barbed horse, . " Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow." Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, i. 5. "With his barbed horse, fresh tidings say, Stout Cromwell has redeemed the day. A Scott: Rokeby, 1. 19. barbed-catte, barbed catte, s. warlike engine. (For details see the example from Caxton which follows.) "For to make a werrely holde that men calle a barbed catte and a bewfray that shal haue ix. fado me of leng the, and two fado me of brede, and the said catte six fado me of leng the and two of brede, shall be ordeyned alle squarre wode for the same aboute four hondred fadom."-Caxton: Vegecius, Sig. I., vi. b. (8 in Boucher .)