To utter an abrupt explosive cry: said of a dog, and hence of other animals.
Figuratively, to clamor; pursue with unreasonable clamor or reproach: usually followed by at.
To cough.
To utter or give forth with a bark.
To break out with: as, to bark out flame.
noun.
The abrupt explosive cry of a dog; hence, a cry resembling that of the dog, uttered by some other animals.
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Generally, the covering of the woody stems, branches, and roots of plants, as distinct and separable from the wood itself.
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Specifically— In pharmacy, Peruvian or Jesuits' bark (see Cinchona).
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In tanning, oak and hemlock barks.
To strip off the bark of, or remove a circle of bark from, as a tree; peel; specifically, to scrape off the outer or dead bark of. See barking, 1.
Hence To strip or rub off the outer covering of (anything, as the skin): as, to bark one's shins.
To cover or inclose with bark: as, to bark a house.
To cover, as the bark does a tree; incrust.
To apply bark to, as in the process of tanning; tan.
To color with an infusion or a decoction of bark: as, to bark sails or cordage.
To kill (game) by the concussion of a bullet which strikes the bark of a limb at the spot on which the animal is crouched, or by the flying bark.
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Nautical, a three-masted vessel, fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzenmast, the other two masts being square-rigged.
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A vessel of any kind, especially a sailing vessel of small size.