2. Adjective. (context: by analogy) Thickly covered in something, as if with barnacles. ¹
3. Adjective. Familiar with the ocean and/or seafaring. ¹
4. Adjective. Old and weathered, particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean. ¹
5. Adjective. (figuratively) Marked by personal experiences; worldly. ¹
6. Adjective. (figuratively) Encumbered with something unnecessary or undesirable, especially through a slow, gradual process of accumulation. ¹
7. Verb. (past of barnacle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barnacled
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barnacled
Literary usage of Barnacled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunlit Days (1915)
"She was built way back in other years, And she's barnacled deep with the tide
... The old ship Hope, with her barnacled sides, She's the ship for me on the ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... as color harmonization ; many chitons and limpets are colored so as to more
or less resemble the speckled and barnacled rocks upon which they occur. ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"... paralyzed by a wisdom that is obsolete or barnacled by prejudice. How often
it is said of reforms great and good that they are earnestly needed and ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"Chitons and Limpets are colored so as to more or less resemble the speckled and
barnacled rocks ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"Buddhism is more or less widely diffused, but in a very attenuated form, barnacled
with all manner of corruptions. Chinese ascendency has brought with it ..."
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