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To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

e of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.

Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.

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

usted over with ice. Boyle. And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood Crusted with bark. Addison. Very foul and crusted bottles. Swift. Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock. Felton.

The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

A mongrel or inferior dog. They . . . like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do. Shak.

A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also urari, woorali, woorari,…

A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis- apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.…

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.

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