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noun

Barnacle n. (Zool.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp.

(a)

the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and

(b)

the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.

Barnacle eater (Zool.), the orange filefish.

Barnacle scale (Zool.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

Barnacle n. A bernicle goose.

Barnacle n.

pl. (Far.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him. Note: (Formerly used in the sing.) "The barnacles... give pain almost equal to that of the switch."

pl. Spectacles; so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. (Cant, Eng.)

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"Barnacle" Quotes from Famous Books

... farms. Not many years ago one of the largest business houses in Chicago put up a placard, just before election, stating that the proprietor considered his interests justly the interests of his clerks, and it was decidedly to his interests to have the Honorable Barnacle Bigbug re-elected. All employes were requested to note well. You see the crime of this dry-goods "prince" (how we all run to idiotic titles!) lay in subordinating the good of the State to the good of his particular millions. He totally forgot that the good of each clerk was as much to be looked ...

— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... for a way to make their fortunes. She must also remain as young looking as ever and always be at his beck and call. Gaylord was rapidly developing into an impossible little bully, the usual result of an impoverished snob who manages to become a barnacle-like fixture on someone a trifle more foolish yet ...

— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley

... that very thing, boy. It's as fast theer as a barnacle to a ship's copper; an' 'll stay, I hope, till I get my claws upon it,— which won't take very long from now. Pass a piece o' cord ...

— The Ocean Waifs - A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea • Mayne Reid

... in olden times was that of the barnacle-tree, to which Sir John Maundeville also alludes:—"In our country were trees that bear a fruit that becomes flying birds; those that fell in the water lived, and those that fell on the earth died, and these be right good for man's meat." As early as the twelfth century ...

— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

... houses in Chicago put up a placard, just before election, stating that the proprietor considered his interests justly the interests of his clerks, and it was decidedly to his interests to have the Honorable Barnacle Bigbug re-elected. All employes were requested to note well. You see the crime of this dry-goods "prince" (how we all run to idiotic titles!) lay in subordinating the good of the State to the good of his particular ...

— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

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