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Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.

Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time. Cotidal lines (Phys. Geog.), lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.

To conceal; to include or involve darkly. There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory. L'Estrange.

marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. [WordNet 1.5]

al regions, as opposed to a city or town. As they walked, on their way into the country. Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ). God made the covatry, and man made the town. Cowper. Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. Macualay.

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.

Fit; proper; suitable. [Obs.] "A covenable day." Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).

To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throune. Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. Shak.

conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

A pantry. [Prov. Eng.] Parker.

the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang]

as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking. It cradles their fears to sleep. D. A. Clark.

ef priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.

king a leap. Beaconsfield. Thackeray. The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks. Howells.

r's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. 43.

A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.