or BARBS, in Furriery, the knots or superfluous flesh that grow up in the channels of a horse's mouth; that is, in the intervals that separate the bars, and lie under the tongue. These, which are also called barbes, obtain in black cattle as well as horses, and obstruct their eating. For the cure, they caft the beast, take out his tongue, and clip off the barbles with a pair of seifars, or cut them with a sharp knife; others choofe to burn them off with a hot iron.