n. A species of oak, Quercus Suber, growing in the south of Europe (especially in Spain and Portugal) and in the north of Africa, having a thick, rough bark, for the sake of which it is often planted. It grows to the height of from 20 to 40 feet, and yields bark every 6 to 10 years for 150 years.n. ‐2. The outer bark of this oak, which is very light and elastic, and is used for many purposes, especially for stoppers for bottles and casks, for artificial legs, for inner soles of shoes, for floats of nets, etc.n. In botany, a constituent of the bark of most phænogamous plants, especially of dicotyledons.n. Something made of cork.n. A stopper or bung for a bottle, cask, or other vessel, cut out of cork; also, by extension, a stopper made of some other substance: as, a rubber cork. A small float of cork used by anglers to buoy up their fishing-lines or to indicate when a fish bites or nibbles; by extension, any such float, even when not made of cork.Made of or with cork; consisting wholly or chiefly of cork.To stop or bung with a piece of cork, as a bottle or cask; confine or make fast with a cork.To stop or check as if with a cork, as a person speaking; silence suddenly or effectually: generally with up: as, this poser corked him up; cork (yourself) up.To blacken with burnt cork, as the face, to represent a negro.n. A bristle; in the plural, bristles; beard.n. A corruption of calk.n. The name given in the Highlands of Scotland to the lichen Lecanora tartarea, yielding a crimson or purple dye. See cudbear.n. plural A game played with corks colored differently on the sides and so trimmed that they may fall either way, the players betting on whether the majority thrown will fall red or black. Sometimes called props.n. In France and Belgium, a game, a mixture of quoits and bowls.n. A variety of skittle-pool.In currying, to grain.
