2. Specifically, Peruvian bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bark bed. See Bark stove (below). --
Bark pit, a pit filled with bark and water, in which hides are steeped in tanning. --
Bark stove (Hort.), a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [ Often in the pl. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Cookery) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Wearing rich caparisons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped. Stow. [ 1913 Webster ]

They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bombardment. [ Poetic & R. ] J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Padded breeches. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bombardier beetle (Zool.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the Brachinus displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is Brachinus fumans. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Same as Lombard-house. [ 1913 Webster ]

A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mil.) A form of cannon formerly in use. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lombard Street, the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lombardic alphabet, the ancient alphabet derived from the Roman, and employed in the manuscript of Italy. --
Lombardic architecture, the debased Roman style of architecture as found in parts of Northern Italy. F. G. Lee.
Lombardy poplar. (Bot.) See Poplar. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scabbard fish (Zool.), a long, compressed, silver-colored taenioid fish (Lepidopus argyreus syn. Lepidopus caudatus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is called frostfish and considered an excellent food fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a tabard he [ the Plowman ] rode upon a mare. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard. Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]