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Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish. Macaulay.

Quakerism. [Obs.] Hallywell.

A wagtail.

A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

See Rake, a mineral vein.

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake. It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

Hasty; reckless; rash. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Ra"kel*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who, or that which, rakes; as:

Debauchery; lewdness. The rakery and intrigues of the lewd town. R. North.

A vile, dissolute wretch. [Obs.] Milton.

The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.

A kind of ardent spirits used in southern Europe and the East, distilled from grape juice, grain, etc.

Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diam…

To awake again.

To make anew.

To take or receive again.

One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor. Kent.

To wake again.

Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats.