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A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.

Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. "Each beaked promontory." Milton.

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

One who makes beds.

One who bespeaks.

To take or seize. [Obs.] Spenser.

To keep watch over; to keep awake. [Obs.] Gower.

To commend; to commit. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.

A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.

One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.

shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.

A man in charge of a brake or brakes.

One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be no breaker of the law. Shak.

One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.

Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.

A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. Divide the broad bridecake Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson.

One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

A thicket of canes. Ellicott.