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Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.

One who makes roads.

A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.

terest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health. Moved with wrath and shame and ladies; sake. Spenser. I will not again curse t…

A small piece of artillery. Wilhelm. On the bastions were planted culverins and sakers. Macaulay. The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart. Hawthorne.

The male of the saker (a).

The pewit gull.

Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidæ, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches bro…

A quaking of the sea.

A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway. Tusser.

obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.

A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. Sir W. Scott.

A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. [Obs.]

Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.

A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.

A female Shaker.

Doctrines of the Shakers.

Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works. [Written also Shakespearian, Shakspearean, Shakspearian, Shaksperean, Shaksperian.etc.]

Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, or tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.