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Quinic :: Quinic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance..

Barkentine :: Barkentine (n.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append..

Wattle :: Wattle (n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna..

Bay :: Bay (v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear..

Mesophl/um :: Mesophl/um (n.) The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated..

Hierapicra :: Hierapicra (n.) A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark..

Disbark :: Disbark (v. t.) To strip of bark; to bark.

Abay :: Abay (n.) Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay.

Aculeus :: Aculeus (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses..

Cinchona :: Cinchona (n.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

Cork :: Cork (n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance..

Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees..

Spicewood :: Spicewood (n.) An American shrub (Lindera Benzoin), the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor; -- called also Benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush..

Embarkation :: Embarkation (n.) That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits..

Jamaicine :: "Jamaicine (n.) An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina..

Barkless :: Barkless (a.) Destitute of bark.

Alder :: Alder (n.) A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees..

Allatrate :: Allatrate (v. i.) To bark as a dog.

Shagbark :: Shagbark (n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod..

Flax :: Flax (n.) A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed..

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