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barnacled, ppl. a.|ˈbɑːnək(ə)ld|
a. Covered with barnacles. Also fig.
b. colloq. Wearing spectacles.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 80 Cleaned with..Scrapers, if barnicled. 1725New Canting Dict. s.v. Barnacles, The Cuffin Quire with his Nose Barnacled..the Justice of Peace with his Spectacles on. 1829Olio III. 55/2 The general reader and spokesman was ready barnacled for his office. 1878R. Stevenson Inland Voy. 6 A gleam of spectacles. For though handsome lads, they were all (in the Scotch phrase) barnacled. 1884Blackw. Mag. Oct. 523 My barnacled barque Drags..heavily on. 1890Jrnl. Educ. 1 Mar. 149/2 With their brains barnacled over with shellfish facts. 1900J. L. Allen Incr. Purpose xvi. 222 There might have been..fewer creeds barnacled in the World's Ship of Souls. |