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

Ross :: Ross (n.) The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees..

Embarkment :: Embarkment (n.) Embarkation.

Girdle :: Girdle (v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it..

Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees..

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

Nine-bark :: Nine-bark (n.) A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, / Spiraea, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name..

Cinchona :: Cinchona (n.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value..

Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange..

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..

Barker :: Barker (n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably..

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

Leach :: Leach (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc..

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

Bark :: Bark (v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs..

Embarked :: Embarked (imp. & p. p.) of Embar.

Cerosin :: Cerosin (n.) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae..

Saponin :: Saponin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type..

Disbark :: Disbark (v. t.) To disembark.

Quercitin :: Quercitin (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin..

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