bark

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• WordNet 3.6
  • v bark tan (a skin) with bark tannins
  • v bark speak in an unfriendly tone "She barked into the dictaphone"
  • v bark make barking sounds "The dogs barked at the stranger"
  • v bark remove the bark of a tree
  • v bark cover with bark
  • n bark a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
  • n bark the sound made by a dog
  • n bark a noise resembling the bark of a dog
  • n bark tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
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Dogs barking at lame man

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Dog barking at a magpie

• Interesting fact: The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark
• • Bark (Naut) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
  • Bark Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
  • n Bark The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
  • Bark To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
  • Bark To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
  • Bark To girdle. See Girdle v. t., 3.
  • Bark To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. "They bark , and say the Scripture maketh heretics.""Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed."
  • Bark To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
  • Bark To strip the bark from; to peel.
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• Interesting fact: Cats sweat through the pads of their feet (especially when they hear a dog barking) and cannot taste sweet things.
• • bark To utter an abrupt explosive cry: said of a dog, and hence of other animals.
  • bark Figuratively, to clamor; pursue with unreasonable clamor or reproach: usually followed by at.
  • bark To cough.
  • bark To utter or give forth with a bark.
  • bark To break out with: as, to bark out flame.
  • n bark The abrupt explosive cry of a dog; hence, a cry resembling that of the dog, uttered by some other animals.
  • n bark Generally, the covering of the woody stems, branches, and roots of plants, as distinct and separable from the wood itself. In its strictest scientific sense it is limited to the dry and dead portion of this covering, as found on exogenous plants, which usually consists of parenchyma or soft cellular tissue, cork, and bast, in varying proportions. See bast, cork, and epidermis. It is very diverse and often complicated in structure, varying in these respects with the species upon which it is found; but it is usually arranged in annular concentric layers. As these become distended by the thickening of the stem, the outer layers often crack and are gradually cast off. In the bark the medicinal and other peculiar properties of the plant are usually abundant, especially tannin and many alkaloids. The younger and softer layer lying next to the young wood is called inner bark, liber, or bast. See cut under bast.
  • n bark Specifically— In pharmacy, Peruvian or Jesuits' bark (see Cinchona).
  • n bark In tanning, oak and hemlock barks.
  • bark 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.
  • bark Hence To strip or rub off the outer covering of (anything, as the skin): as, to bark one's shins.
  • bark To cover or inclose with bark: as, to bark a house.
  • bark To cover, as the bark does a tree; incrust.
  • bark To apply bark to, as in the process of tanning; tan.
  • bark To color with an infusion or a decoction of bark: as, to bark sails or cordage.
  • bark 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.
  • n bark Nautical, a three-masted vessel, fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzenmast, the other two masts being square-rigged.
  • n bark A vessel of any kind, especially a sailing vessel of small size.
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• Interesting fact: Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
• • n Bark bärk the abrupt cry uttered by a dog, wolf, &c
  • v.i Bark to yelp like a dog: to clamour
  • v.t Bark (Spens.) to utter with a bark
  • n Bark bärk a barge: a ship of small size, square-sterned, without head-rails: technically, a three-masted vessel whose mizzen-mast is fore-and-aft rigged instead of being square-rigged, like the fore and main masts—barks of over 3000 tons are now frequently built
  • n Bark bärk the rind or covering of the trunk and branches of a tree: that used in tanning or dyeing, or the residue thereof, laid upon a street to deaden the sound, &c.: the envelopment or outer covering of anything
  • v.t Bark to strip or peel the bark from: to rub off (skin)
  • v.i Bark to become like bark
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• John Calvin

  

  “A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.”
• Bertrand Russell

  

  “No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.”
• Francesco Petrarch

  

  “How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.”
• Chinese Proverb

  

  “One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.”
• Proverb

  

  “Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.”
• Quintus Curtius Rufus

  

  “A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.”

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