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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.

The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.

Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.

In a rakish manner.

The quality or state of being rakish.

A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma ware, but having a paler color.

An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.

Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

The act of rallying.

One who rallies.

own as the Constitutional Right from its position in the Chambers, mainly monarchists who rallied to the support of the Republic in obedience to the encyclical put forth by Pope Leo XIII. in Feb., 1892.

Pertaining to the rails.