a. Unbarbed.
1822. Republican Compiler, 18 Dec., 3/2.
| Your barbless shafts aim’d to annoy, | |
| What YOU can neither BE nor SEEM; | |
| For candor, on your jaundic’d eye, | |
| Disdains to shed her genial beam. |
1882. Daily News, 9 Feb., 5/2. Varieties of fish hooks from the flint and barbless bone articles of Esquimaux [etc.].
