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p. p. of Bake. [Obs. or. Archaic]

Made of bark. [Poetic] Whittier.

A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

Birchen; as, birken groves. Burns.

To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope

One who blackens.

A brake or fern. Sir W. Scott.

A mountain specter (which see), esp. that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains.

Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.

Abscess of the mammary gland.

The heaves.

Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.

Having a ruptured belly. [R.]

ving the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.