barbed

1. (heraldry)Examples: "Crest : A demi-cockatrice or, crested gules, stricken through the back of the neck with an arrow sable, barbed and flighted argent. Sable, two bars humettée or between a cock in fesse and a swan in chief and in base argent."; "The cross barbed has its limbs terminated by arrow-heads; it is sometimes emblazoned cramponée and tournée, but Edmondson gives the last name to a totally different cross, one not unlike the cross fourchée."

2. (heraldry)Examples: "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)"; "About the year 1446, he carried, as by our old books of blazons, quarterly, first and fourth Marr; second and third Lyle, as above blazoned; for crest, a cock or, crested and barbed gules: motto, An I may; supported by two[…]"

3. (heraldry)Examples: "PLANT (?Plantagenet). Arg. a rose gu. seeded or barbed vert."

4. (of language, etc.) Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.usually

5. (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.Examples: "Your Lordship may remember in your reading, that there were many Earles could bring into the field a thousand Barbed horses"