rare. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To dress the beard and hair of, to trim. Also fig.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., II. ii. 229. Our Courteous Anthony … Being barber’d ten times o’re goes to the Feast.
1816. J. Gilchrist, Philos. Etym., 145. Great grammarians … capable of mending our standard compositions, and of barbering them into the fashion.
