v. Sc. [f. BARK sb.1 + -EN2.]
1. trans. To dry up (any sticky daubing) into a hardened crust or bark; to cover or stiffen by this process.
1513–1827. [see BARKENED].
1852. Blackw. Mag., LXXI. 739. Even at breakfast your trout are spoiled. They are barkened with oatmeal.
1861. Reade, Cloister & H., xxiv. (D.). With the night came a shrewd frost that barkened the blood on my wounds.
2. intr. To dry and become a hardened crust.
1826. Blackw. Mag., XIX. 400. He will barken into bedimmed and shrivelled scaliness.
1829. Scott, Guy M., xxiii. Let the blood barken upon the cut—that saves plaster.
