The rind or exterior covering of a tree, corresponding to the skin of an animal. This is composed of the cuticle or epidermis, the outer bark or cortex, and the inner bark or liber. The rough broken matter on bark is, by the common people of New England, called ross.

By way of distinction. Peruvian Bark.

To peel; to strip off bark. Also to cover or inclose with bark.

A small ship; but appropriately, a ship which carries three masts without a mizen top sail. The English mariners, in the coal trade, apply this name to a broadsterned ship without a figure-head. Water-barks, in Holland, are small vessels, for conveying fresh water from place to place, the hold of which is filled with water.

To make the noise of dogs, when they threaten or pursue.

To clamor at; to pursue with unreasonable clamor or reproach. It is followed by at. To bark at sleeping fame.