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BARK

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in the anatomy of plants, the exterior part of trees, corresponding to the skin of an animal. See AGRICULTURE, p. 43.

or JESUIT'S BARK, is a name given by way of eminence to the quinquina. See QUINQUINA.

in navigation, a little vessel with two or three triangular sails; but, according to Guillet, it is a vessel with three masts, viz., a main-mast, fore-mast, and mizen-mast. It carries about two hundred tons.