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Bass :: Bass (n.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast..

Rubiaceous :: Rubiaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms..

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

Barking Irons :: Barking irons () A pair of pistols.

Embarking :: Embarking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embar.

Buprestidan :: Buprestidan (n.) One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees..

Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. i.) To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark..

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

Quercitannic :: Quercitannic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance..

Quinoidine :: Quinoidine (n.) A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.

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..

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

Kinnikinic :: Kinnikinic (n.) Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; -- used by the Indians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi)..

Bark :: Bark (v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut..

Guidguid :: Guidguid (n.) A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.

Oblatration :: Oblatration (n.) The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling.

Gall :: Gall (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut..

Stike :: Stigonomancy (n.) Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.

Embarcation :: Embarcation (n.) Same as Embarkation.

Spanker :: Spanker (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail..

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