See Also: Barnacle(medicine)
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barnacle(2)(dictionary)
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underage (iou) and barnacle(2) (iou)


underage (iou)



underage adjective & noun. L16.
[from UNDER- + AGE noun.]
A. adjective.
That is under a certain age or limit of age; too young. L16.
Daily Express Guilty of sex with an underage girl. N. Hinton There were more people than Jobs and, anyway, he was under-age.
Of an activity: carried on by a person below the legal age for the activity. L20.
New York Times Advertising is not causing underage drinking.
B. noun. The time during which a person is underage. E-M17.

barnacle(2) (iou)



barnacle noun2. LME.
[Alt. of Anglo-Norman bernac, of unkn. origin.]
A kind of bit or twitch for restraining a horse or ass; spec. an instrument of two branches joined by a hinge, placed on the nose of the animal. Usu. in pl. LME.
In pl. Spectacles. arch. & dial. L16.
An instrument of torture fashioned and applied like a barnacle (sense 1 above). Usu. in pl. obsolete exc. Hist. E17.
barnacled adjective2 (arch. or dial.) wearing spectacles E18.