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▪ I. barken, v. Sc.|ˈbɑːk(ə)n|
[f. bark n.1 + -en2.]
1. trans. To dry up (any sticky daubing) into a hardened crust or bark; to cover or stiffen by this process.
1513–1827 [see barkened]. 1852Blackw. Mag. LXXI. 739 Even at breakfast your trout are spoiled. They are barkened with oatmeal. 1861Reade Cloister & H. xxiv. (D.) A shrewd frost that barkened the blood on my wounds.
2. intr. To dry and become a hardened crust.
1826Blackw. Mag. XIX. 400 He will barken into bedimmed and shrivelled scaliness. 1829Scott Guy M. xxiii, Let the blood barken upon the cut—that saves plaster.
▪ II. ˈbarken, a. Chiefly poet.
[f. bark n.1 + -en4.]
Made or consisting of bark.
1755T. Forbes in C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 148 Easter Tuesday we embarked..in about 300 Batteaus or Canoes (not barken). 1835R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-h. I. v. 61 Perhaps some tall and tawny hunter..may yet..urge his barken canoe over some cypress-fringed pool. 1864G. M. Hopkins Pilate in Note-Books (1937) 15 Then knot a barken band To hold me quite fix'd in the selfsame plight. 1890Harper's Mag. Aug. 365 A sword-lunge of assailant thunder Slashed down thy barken mail. |