Definition of Barkens

1. barken [v] - See also: barken

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barkens

bark up the wrong tree
barkans
barkantine
barkantines
barkbound
barkcloth
barked
barkeep
barkeeper
barkeepers
barkeeping
barkeeps
barken
barkened
barkening
barkens (current term)
barkentine
barkentines
barker
barkeries
barkers
barkery
barkhan
barkhans
barkier
barkiest
barking
barking deer
barking dogs never bite
barking dogs seldom bite

Literary usage of Barkens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1836)
"And then confident again, up she gets, out she looks, listens and enquires, barkens, kens, every man afar off is sure he ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"It no-but barkens them for a week or so. BACK-END, s.—The latter part of the year, or a :tumn; Used sometimes of the latter part of the week or month, ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"Let us suppose he does not sleep, but wakes—wakes, and barkens to what sounds soever of earthly detraction or praise may reach him, throned among his fellow ..."

4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"... which are hairy on the back and margin. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 79. On the Fort Yuma road, at barkens, 80 miles east of San Diego, Palmer. ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... still fresh after the lapse of more than two centuries and a half, and with them are remembered Caspar barkens (1584-1648) and "ngn ^r"t;"° (1583-1645). ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"45), yet God barkens especially to the prayers of the righteous (Matt vii. 7-11; Mark xi. 23-24; Luke xi. 9-13, xvii. 6, xviii. 1-7). ..."

7. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1904)
"This plate is probably from the first edition of barkens, however, and the drawing was probably made by the Dutch artist Francis Post between 1630 and 1654. ..."

8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... who seemed lost for a moment in that pondering and bewildering stupor of a criminal who barkens his doom—a brace of dogs that had whined and cowered at ..."

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