baritone

and a. See barytone. barium (bā'ri-um), n. [NL., -Barium oxid. See baryta . Barium sulphate, heavy- spar , BaSO4, the commonest of the barium minerals, almost perfectly insoluble in water. Artificially prepared barium sulphate is used as a pigment, under the name of permanent white . See barytes . bark1 (bärk), v. [ barken , berken , borken , be or can (strong verb, pp. borcen , > bor- cian , bark, weak verb) = Icel. berkja (weak verb), bark, bluster. Supposed by some to be orig. another form of AS. brecan (pp. brocen ), break, snap. Cf. Icel. brækta , bleat, = Norw. brækta , bræka = Sw. bräka = Dan. bræge , bleat.] I. in trans. 1. To utter an abrupt explosive ery: said of a dog, and hence of other animals. No dog shall rouse thee, though a you sand bark . Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 240. 2. Figuratively, to clamor; pursue with unreasonable clamor or reproach: usually fol IMG:content-1674.png:[graphic] lowed by at. Vile is the venge a unce on the ashes cold, And envy base to barke at sleeping fame. Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 13. The lank hungry belly barks for food. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, i. 1. 3. To cough. [Colloq.] - To bark at the moon, to clamor or agitate to no purpose. - To bark up the wrong tree, to mistake one's object; attack or pursue another than the person or thing intended, as when a dog bark by barking brings the hunter to a tree other than that in which the game has really taken refuge. [Colloq., U. S.] II.t trans. 1. To utter or give forth with a bark.-2. To break out with: as, to bark out flame.