BARK Copy link • BARK 1. the rind of a tree, cortex (the exterior); liber (the inner): to live on the bark of trees, cortice ex arboribus vivere. Peruvian bark, cortex Peruvianus, or febrifugus: the bark-tree, linchona (Liv.). A small ship, or vessel, scapha and cymba (of the broader sort); linter (long and narrow, like a canoe, Döderlein). 2. v. to strip trees of bark, decorticare or delibrare arbores. Like a dog, baubari (to utter the natural sound of dogs): latrare (in a hostile manner): latratus edere; gannire applies to the “bow-wow” of a little dog. Hence, figuratively, latrare means to wrongle, and gannire to chatter. (Döderlein’s Handbook, p. 121.) “His bark is worse than his bite,” (canis timidus) vehementius latrat quam mordet (Prov., Curt., 7, 4, 7).