2. Verb. (third-person singular of barnacle) ¹
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Definition of Barnacles
1. barnacle [n] - See also: barnacle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barnacles
Literary usage of Barnacles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1908)
"No barnacles on rock in place were observed in the bay. There is no evidence from
the distribution of barnacles of any change in level of the eastern side ..."
2. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Arg. three horse-barnacles in pale tied tightly gu. two and one. ... -horse-barnacles
expanded in pale or on a chief erm. a demi lion ramp, issuant gu. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1850)
"barnacles wasn't beat yet. In the attempt to hoax barnacles, allowance had not
... barnacles, at the sight of the good things before him, contrary to all ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"... The barnacles with them, which, wheresoe'er they breed— On trees or rotten
ships—yet to my fens for feed Continually they come, and chief abode do make, ..."
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