(v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
(v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
(v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
(v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
(n.) The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
(n.) Alt. of Barque
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) The cotton root bark, when used as an abortifacient, exhibits the lowest toxicity.
(3) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
(4) The non-phenolic components of the mature stem bark were shown to be (+)-pinitol, sucrose, glucose, fructose, l(-)-pipecolic acid, trans-4-hydroxy-l(-)-pipecolic acid, alpha-alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, l(-)-proline, serine, a ;steroid' alcohol and a long-chain beta-diketone.
(5) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(6) As previously reported, the methanol extract from the bark of AN and the fractions of the methanol extract have protective effects for liver injury induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in rats.
(7) The root bark of S. paludosum which showed curare like activity yielded tomatidenol and another yet unidentified alkaloid responsible for the biological activity.
(8) "She sat next to me when I wrote songs, and barked any time I tried to record something, and she was with me in the studio all the time we recorded the last album ."
(9) In a letter to Hodge on Tuesday, Duncan also claimed that Hodge, the MP for Barking, had made “undoubtedly libellous assertions” about the tax affairs of the bank’s chief executive Stuart Gulliver.
(10) Aggressiveness was the most obvious symptom (71%) followed by salivation (48%), paresis and paralysis (28%) and barking (11%).
(11) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(12) Although it had been anticipated that affordable private rents in expensive inner city areas such as Westminster would be scarce, the acute housing shortage in the capital means market rents outstrip benefit cap levels in cheaper outer London boroughs including Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Barking and Dagenham.
(13) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
(14) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(15) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
(16) The methanol extract of the stem bark of Schumanniophyton magnificum and schumanniofoside, a chromone alkaloidal glycoside isolated from it, reduced the lethal effect of black cobra (Naja melanoleuca) venom in mice.
(17) The second case describes a seventeen year old school girl who suffered from barking coughing attacks.
(18) The expertise is only to be obtained by visiting the regions where the quinquina tree grows and finding one's way with the help of willing "cascarilleros", the Indians collecting the quinquina bark.
(19) The following month the commissioner of police, Sir Paul Stephenson, came to see me to persuade me that Nick Davies was barking up the wrong tree.
(20) The 'judge-led inquiry' that never was is shut down and investigating kidnap and torture in freedom's name will be left to a watchdog that never barks and which exonerated the spooks six years ago."
Hark
Definition:
(v. i.) To listen; to hearken.
Example Sentences:
(1) A lot of the problems hark back to these unscrupulous brokers who didn’t have any real interest in education.
(2) He said Indians today were of a new generation and were no longer nervous of such harkings-back to the past which represented no threat.” The diplomat - who went on to be Britain’s ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan - enclosed a press cutting from the Times of India, headlined “Rushdie’s Complaint”.
(3) He harks back to an age when cricket was part of the country's cultural life in a way it no longer is.
(4) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand grenade.
(5) There are some, particularly younger African American activists, who blame black civil rights leaders for harking back to old traditions, rather than seeking new bridges.
(6) In court Cregan and Wilkinson admitted the attack but denied actively trying to murder the occupant, Sharon Hark, who the prosecution claimed belonged to a family with whom Cregan had a grievance.
(7) The story harked back to the county’s tobacco plantation past – but it was dominated by images of successful African Americans enjoying their yachts, golf courses and gated communities.
(8) Charney has long defended risque advertising and a promiscuous lifestyle, with both his design aesthetic and his sexual mores harking back to the California of the mid-1970s.
(9) Jermaine Ward, 24, was found guilty of the murder of David Short but cleared of the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
(10) Constâncio also harked back to the 1930s, when German philosopher Edmund Husserl warned that Europe faced an existential crisis that would either destroy it, or see it reborn.
(11) This view is underpinned by a deeper sense of historical purpose, harking back to Margaret Thatcher’s governments.
(12) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
(13) If the U8’s avant-garde modernism seems a good fit for the graphic designers and fashionistas that now frequent the line on their way to trendy Neukölln, other station signs still hark back to the capital’s authoritarian past.
(14) It harks back to a time before gay went mainstream, before Will and Grace, before Queer As Folk, before the age of gay romcoms like Adam and Steve.
(15) Eureka has gentrified a lot since then, but still has a colourful edge that harks back to pioneer days.
(16) There are banjos and harmonicas, songs harking back to the old-time tunes she grew up listening to in Golden, Texas (population: 600).
(17) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
(18) The heavy-handed 'stop and search' activity outside London tube stations harks back to a period before the Lawrence inquiry and raises questions about racial profiling in immigration control."
(19) He was cleared of one count of the attempted murder of Sharon Hark on the same day and cleared of causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
(20) I think we’re harking back to a world that probably didn’t exist.