"throw in the bark" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the fact that the bark of the cinchona tree is used to make the medicine quinine.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "throws in the bark",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "throwing in the bark",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "threw in the bark",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thrown in the bark",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "throw<,,threw,thrown> in the bark"
      },
      "expansion": "throw in the bark (third-person singular simple present throws in the bark, present participle throwing in the bark, simple past threw in the bark, past participle thrown in the bark)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1790, William Buchan, Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, 11th edition, page 151",
          "text": "In intermitting fevers of an obſtinate nature, I have found it necessary to throw in the bark much faſter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1864 (Nov 5), E. Hare, \"The treatment of malarious fever\", The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2, page 487",
          "text": "An emetic was prescribed, a perspiration broke out, and I now, with an air of confidence, began to throw in the bark, quite sanguine in my expectations of soon checking this formidable disease."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To administer quinine."
      ],
      "id": "en-throw_in_the_bark-en-verb-SWZpVxhk",
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "administer",
          "administer"
        ],
        [
          "quinine",
          "quinine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, medicine) To administer quinine."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "throw in the bark"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the fact that the bark of the cinchona tree is used to make the medicine quinine.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "throws in the bark",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "throwing in the bark",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "threw in the bark",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thrown in the bark",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "throw<,,threw,thrown> in the bark"
      },
      "expansion": "throw in the bark (third-person singular simple present throws in the bark, present participle throwing in the bark, simple past threw in the bark, past participle thrown in the bark)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1790, William Buchan, Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, 11th edition, page 151",
          "text": "In intermitting fevers of an obſtinate nature, I have found it necessary to throw in the bark much faſter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1864 (Nov 5), E. Hare, \"The treatment of malarious fever\", The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2, page 487",
          "text": "An emetic was prescribed, a perspiration broke out, and I now, with an air of confidence, began to throw in the bark, quite sanguine in my expectations of soon checking this formidable disease."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To administer quinine."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "administer",
          "administer"
        ],
        [
          "quinine",
          "quinine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, medicine) To administer quinine."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "throw in the bark"
}