ppl. a. a. Covered with barnacles. b. colloq. Wearing spectacles.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 80. Cleaned with … Scrapers, if barnicled.
1878. R. Stevenson, Inland Voy., 6. A gleam of spectacles. For though handsome lads, they were all (in the Scotch phrase) barnacled.
1884. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 523. My barnacled barque Drags … heavily on.
