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A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.

A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl.

A freckle. [Obs.] A few fraknes in his face. Chaucer.

A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.

A rake drawn by a horse.

Same as Keelhaul.

s resembling an immense octopus. To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow.

Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats.

lant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region. And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. Shak.

Same as Moonsail.

A rake for scraping up muck or dung. See Muckrake, v. i., below.

ions. On April 14, 1906, President Roosevelt delivered a speech on "The Man with the Muck Rake," in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to muck"rake`, in the above sense, and the noun muck"rak`er, to design…

To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.

Same as Parrakeet.

Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

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

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

The pewit gull.

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.

A sheldrake.