Barky

a. [f. BARK sb.¹ + -Y¹.]

  1.  Covered with bark.

1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., IV. i. 48. The female Iuy so Enrings the barky fingers of the Elme.

1656.  Du Gard, Gate Lat. Unl., § 83. A stringgie root, a barkie stock.

1870.  Bryant, Homer, II. XVI. 153. Woods of beech and ash and barky cornel.

  fig.  1604.  Breton, Pass. Sheph. (1876), 6. Trees their barky silence breake, Cracke yet though they can not speake.

  2.  Of the nature of bark.

1835.  Browning, Parac., IV. 141. The barky scurf of leprosy.