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The common European sheldrake.

The turnstone. [Prev. Eng.]

A streak. [Obs.] Spenser."White strake." Gen. xxx. 37.

The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the surface being cut.

The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.

.] Aboon the pass of Bally-Brough. Sir W. Scott. The ceiling fair that rose aboon. J. R. Drake.

d a ship; in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern." De Foe. "Left this strait astern." Drake. To bake astern, to go stern foremost. -- To be astern of the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. -- To drop astern, to fall or be left behind. -- To go astern, to go backward, as from the action o…

To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. [Archaic] The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

sound; to roar. As loud as belleth wind in hell. Chaucer. The wild buck bells from ferny brake. Sir W. Scott.

A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.

of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson. His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.

A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

of vision in; to dim; to darken. Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare. J. R. Drake.

dly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake.

A brake or fern. Sir W. Scott.

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

arious directions; to shake or flourish. The quivering lance which he brandished bright. Drake.

A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.