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Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. Gardner.

Destitute of bark.

Covered with, or containing, bark. "The barky fingers of the elm." Shak.

One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

(Bot.) See Larkspur.

Any permanent mark to which other levels may be referred. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.

A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame. [Alaska] The Century.

Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.

Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

on. The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense, . . . the floating bulwark of our island. Blackstone.

A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.

xious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.] His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. Spenser. Fling cark and care aside. Motherwell. Ereedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion. R. D. Blackmore.

A carcanet. Southey.

Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares.

Charcoal; a cinder. [Obs.] DeFoe.

The frontier of a country; confines. [Obs.] Shelton.

A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Compa…

ght; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark and silent grave. Sir W. Raleigh.…

To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.