The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barbados \Bar*ba"dos\ or Barbadoes \Bar*ba"does\, n. A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies ( Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry.
Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates.
Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut. [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of "barbadoes".
We were now fast nearing the island of Barbadoes, the weather was beautiful, the wind always fair.
The coloured people of Barbadoes, for reasons best known to themselves, are immoderately proud, and look upon all the negroes who are born on other islands as niggers.
When I handed my partner to her place, who certainly was the prettiest girl in the room, she looked rather contemptuously at me, and observed to a neighbour, "I really pity de gentleman as come from England dat no know how to dance, nor nothing at all, until em hab instruction at Barbadoes.
The dancing continued until three o'clock in the morning, when it was quite a squeeze, from the constant arrival of fresh recruits from all the houses in Barbadoes.
Gentlemen and ladies —You all know, and if be so you don't, I say there no place in de world like Barbadoes.
Phillott wished to hear the end of the captain's story, he would not contradict him about the wine, by stating what he knew to be the case, that the captain had sent it on board at Barbadoes.
We did not wait for an answer, but made all sail to join the admiral at Barbadoes.
We had made sail for Barbadoes two days, and were within sight of the island of Trinidad, when we perceived six sail on the lee-bow.
He said, that the brig sailed almost as fast under jury-masts as she did before, and that, as soon as I came on board, he should go back to Barbadoes.
Pierre was shut out from my longing sight, and we were on our way to Barbadoes.
This was gladly assented to by O'Brien, who came on board and asked me whether I should like to have her, which I agreed to, as I was quite tired of Barbadoes and fried flying fish.
Simple, do you recollect how angry you were because I didn't peach at Barbadoes, when the man sucked the monkey?
He was a black, who ran away, when quite a lad, from his master at Barbadoes, and entered on board of a man-of-war.
The distance to Jamaica, to which island he was directed to proceed, and from thence with his crew to obtain a passage to Barbadoes, was not great, and Captain M— did not like to have the frigate short manned.
They all arrived safe at Barbadoes, when the commodore brought in his returns to the admiral, and complained bitterly of the obstinacy of the masters of merchant vessels, who would part company with him, in defiance of all his injunctions, and in spite of all the powder which he fired away to enforce his signals.