barbed

adjective6

1. •
   Having barbs.

   • COCKATRICE an imaginary monster resembling a wivern with the head of a cock, the tongue barbed. It occurs displayed, but is ordinarily borne with the wings endorsed. — 1847
2. •
   Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
3. •
   Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
4. •
   Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).

   • PLANT (?Plantagenet). Arg. a rose gu. seeded or barbed vert. — 1874
5. •
   Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.

   • Ex. A Cock barbed and crested, (that is, wattled and combed, which signifies the Comb and Gills of a Cock, when born of a different Tincture from the Body) — 1729
6. •
   Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.

   • Your Lordship may remember in your reading, that there were many Earles could bring into the field a thousand Barbed horses — 1638