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 I.  verb 
 Etymology: Middle English berken, from Old English beorcan; akin to Old Norse berkja to bark, Lithuanian burgėti to growl Date: before 12th century intransitive  verb 
 
 1. to make the characteristic short loud cry of a dog, to make a noise resembling a bark, to speak in a curt loud and usually angry tone ;  snap  , transitive  verb to utter in a curt loud usually angry tone , to advertise by persistent outcry , 
 
 II.  noun Date: before 12th century 
 
 1. the sound made by a barking dog, a similar sound, a short sharp peremptory tone of speech or utterance, barkless  adjective 
 
 III.  noun 
 Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse bark-, bǫrkr; akin to Middle Dutch & Middle Low German borke bark
 Date: 14th century
 the tough exterior covering of a woody root or stem,  cinchona  2, a candy containing chocolate and nuts that is made in a sheet and broken into pieces, barkless  adjective 
 
 IV. transitive  verb 
 Date: 14th century
 to treat with an infusion of tanbark, 
 
 2. to strip the bark from, to rub off or abrade the skin of , 
 
 V.  noun or barque 
 Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French barque, from Old Occitan barca, from Late Latin
 Date: 15th century
 
 
 1. a small sailing ship, a sailing ship of three or more masts with the aftmost mast fore-and-aft rigged and the others square-rigged, a craft propelled by sails or oars

 bark beetle 
  noun 
 Date: 1862
 any of numerous beetles (family Scolytidae) that bore under the bark of trees both as a larva and as an adult

 bark up the wrong tree 
 phrasal to promote or follow a mistaken course (as in doing research)