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bark(4) (iou) and Trenton (sh)


bark(4) (iou)



bark verb1. [b¨»:k]
[Old English beorcan from Germanic, perh. ult. metath. alt. of BREAK verb.]
verb intrans. Of a dog, fox, etc.: utter a sharp explosive cry. OE.
barking bird the black-throated huet-huet, Pteroptochos tarnii, of S. America. barking deer = MUNTJAC. barking squirrel = prairie dog s.v. PRAIRIE.
verb intrans. Speak or cry out aggressively, petulantly, or imperiously. ME.
H. Latimer It is the scripture and not the translation, that ye bark against.
verb trans. Utter as a bark; ejaculate with a bark. LME.
Spenser Cerberus, whose many mouthes doo bay And barke out flames. J. Clare The dog bark'd a welcome. L. Uris Bill Fry stood on his bridge barking orders through a megaphone. S. Brill He popped a few mints into his mouth, looked up and barked, 'Let's get started.'
verb trans. Drive away, back, off, by barking. E19.
verb intrans. Of a firearm etc.: emit a harsh explosive sound. M19.
S. E. White The Colt's forty-five barked once, and then again.
verb intrans. & trans. Call out to attract custom (for); tout. US. E20.
Phrases: bark against the moon, bark at the moon clamour to no effect. bark up the wrong tree make an effort in the wrong direction, be on the wrong track.

Trenton (sh)




City (pop., 2000: 85,403), capital of New Jersey, U.S. It lies at the head of navigation on the Delaware River.

Settled §ã 1679 by English Quakers, it was incorporated in 1745. On Dec. 25, 1776, George Washington led his army across the ice-choked Delaware River to attack Hessian troops quartered at Trenton (see battles of Trenton and Princeton). It served as temporary capital of the U.S. in 1784 and 1799 and was made the state capital in 1790. The completion of a canal and railroad line in the 1830s spurred Trenton's industrial development, and it remains an industrial city.