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To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." Arbuthnot.

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

ine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

Decrepitude. [R.] Barrow.

in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.

Failure. [Obs.] Barrow.

Full of defects; imperfect. [Obs.] Barrow.

To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end. "To define controversies." Barrow.

a general officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey.

To strip off the bark; to peel. [Obs.] Ash.

The act of stripping off the bark. [Obs.] Ash.

To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize. If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized. A. Cyc.

n; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.

ense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.

Formation of teeth; toothed form. [R.] How did it [a bill] get its barb, its dentation Paley.

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.

h; decease. The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Tim. iv. 6. His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. Sir P. Sidney.

To lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.

.] The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues. Barrow.