What is "bark"

Bark \Bark\, v. i. [OE. berken, AS. beorcan; akin to Icel. berkja, and prob. to E. break.]

1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

   They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics.
   --Tyndale.

   Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed.
   --Fuller.

Bark \Bark\, n. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

Bark \Bark\, Barque \Barque\, n. [F. barque, fr. Sp. or It. barca, fr. LL. barca for barica. See Barge.]

1. Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
   --Byron.

2. (Naut.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

Bark \Bark\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Barking.]

1. To strip the bark from; to peel.

2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

3. To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.

4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

"tree skin," c.1300, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse borkr "bark," from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, which probably is related to birch and Low German borke. The native word was rind.

"any small ship," early 15c., from Middle French barque (15c.), from Late Latin barca (c.400 C.E.), probably cognate with Vulgar Latin *barica (see barge). More precise sense of "three-masted ship" (17c.) often is spelled barque to distinguish it.

in reference to a dog sound, Old English beorcan "to bark," from Proto-Germanic *berkan (cognates: Old Norse berkja "to bark"), of echoic origin. Related: Barked; barking. To bark up the wrong tree is U.S. colloquial, first attested 1832, from notion of hounds following the wrong scent.

dog sound, Old English beorc, from bark (v.). Paired and compared with bite (n.) since at least 1660s; the proverb is older: "Timid dogs bark worse than they bite" was in Latin (Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet, Quintius Curtius).

Etymology 1 n. 1 The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog. 2 A similar sound made by some other animals. 3 (context figuratively English) An abrupt loud vocal utterance. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). 2 (context intransitive English) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcry. 3 (context transitive English) To speak sharply. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context countable uncountable English) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree. 2 (context medicine English) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced. 3 The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it. vb. 1 To strip the bark from; to peel. 2 To abrade or rub off any outer covering from. 3 To girdle. 4 To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark. Etymology 3

alt. 1 (context obsolete English) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge. 2 (context poetic English) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. 3 (context nautical English) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged. n. 1 (context obsolete English) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge. 2 (context poetic English) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. 3 (context nautical English) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

1. n. tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

2. a noise resembling the bark of a dog

3. a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts [syn: barque]

4. the sound made by a dog

5. v. speak in an unfriendly tone; "She barked into the dictaphone"

6. cover with bark

7. remove the bark of a tree [syn: skin]

8. make barking sounds; "The dogs barked at the stranger"

9. tan (a skin) with bark tannins

A bark is a sound most commonly produced by dogs. Other animals that make this noise include wolves, coyotes, pinnipeds, foxes and quolls. Woof is the most common representation in the English language for this sound, especially for large dogs. Other transliterations include the onomatopoeic ruff, arf, au au, bow-wow, and, for small dogs, yip. “Bark” is also a verb that describes the sharp explosive cry of certain animals.

Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues outside of the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. It overlays the wood and consists of the inner bark and the outer bark. The inner bark, which in older stems is living tissue, includes the innermost area of the periderm. The outer bark in older stems includes the dead tissue on the surface of the stems, along with parts of the innermost periderm and all the tissues on the outer side of the periderm. The outer bark on trees which lies external to the last formed periderm is also called the rhytidome.

Products derived from bark include: bark shingle siding and wall coverings, spices and other flavorings, tanbark for tannin, resin, latex, medicines, poisons, various hallucinogenic chemicals and cork. Bark has been used to make cloth, canoes, and ropes and used as a surface for paintings and map making. A number of plants are also grown for their attractive or interesting bark colorations and surface textures or their bark is used as landscape mulch.

Bark is an outer layer of a woody plant.

Bark may also refer to:

• Bark (sound), a vocalization of some animals
• Bark, Germany
• Bark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
• Bark (album), by Jefferson Airplane
• Bark!, a film
• Barque, a type of ship
• Bark scale, an auditory frequency metric
• Barkeria, an orchid genus
• BARK (organization), an environmentalist organization in Oregon
• A magazine published by Canada Wide Media
• Confections such as Almond bark or Peppermint bark

BARK may also refer to:

• BARK, a computer
• βARK, Beta adrenergic receptor kinase, an intracellular enzyme
• Bark.com, a British internet company

Bark is the sixth studio album by Jefferson Airplane. Released in 1971 as Grunt FTR-1001, the album is one of the Airplane's late-period works, notable for the group's first personnel changes since 1966. The album was the first without band founder Marty Balin (who departed the band during the recording process but without featuring in the sessions) and the first with violinist Papa John Creach. Drummer Spencer Dryden had been replaced by Joey Covington in early 1970 after a lengthy transitional period.

Bark was the Airplane's first all-new release in two years, the previous being 1969's Volunteers. It was also the first album to be released under the Jefferson Airplane-owned Grunt Records label.

Lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen received four songwriting credits on the album, indicative of his growing importance as a composer. At the time, he and bassist Jack Casady had already recorded two albums for their spin-off blues group Hot Tuna.

The album reached #11 on the Billboard album chart (outperforming both Volunteers and Kantner's Hugo Award-nominated 1970 solo album Blows Against the Empire) and was certified gold by RIAA. An accompanying single, the Covington-led "Pretty as You Feel"—excerpted from a longer jam on the LP with members of Santana—was the band's final Top 100 American hit, peaking at #60.

BARK is an Oregon, United States, non-profit organization that was created to combat logging, clear-cutting, deforestation and projects members say create "commercial destruction" in Oregon forests, specifically those of the Mt. Hood National Forest.

Bark is a web-based services marketplace founded in 2012 by British entrepreneurs Andrew Michael and Kai Feller, and headquartered in London. Bark has over 20m users worldwide.

Bark (2014) is a short story collection by American author Lorrie Moore. It was short-listed for the Story Prize in 2014. The collection was short listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was among Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Books of 2014.

Washington Post book reviewer Heller McAlpin described the volume as a "powerful collection about the difficulty of letting go of love."