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Winter's bark(medicine)
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vend(1) (iou) and Winter's bark (iou)


vend(1) (iou)



vend noun. E17.
[from VEND verb.]
Sale; an act or opportunity of vending. E17.
spec. Sale of coals from a colliery; the total amount sold during a certain period. E18.

Winter's bark (iou)



Winter's bark noun phr. E17.
[= mod. Latin cortex Winteranus, named after its discoverer, William Winter (or Wynter), English naval officer (d. 1589), who accompanied Francis Drake to the Straits of Magellan.]
The pungent bark of a S. American tree, Drimys winteri, (family Winteraceae), formerly valued as an antiscorbutic and stimulant; the tree yielding this bark, which has aromatic leaves and jasmine-scented white flowers.