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See Brakeman.

uces; seduction; allurement. Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everAkenside.

equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse. He bridled her mouth with a silkweed twist. Drake.

he sun was bright o'erhead. Longfellow. The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

urdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. Amongst rude burs and thistles. Milton. Bur and brake and brier. Tennyson.

The joint where two planks in a strake meet.

A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car. [U. S.]

A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

ting or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. Continuous brake (Railroad), a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine. -- Continuous impost. See Impost.

An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.

A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. Knight.

A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock. Knight.

ant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.

To She cuddles low beneath the brake; Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly. Prior.

The corncrake or land rail.

; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift.

kbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. -- To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets; hence: To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it away heedlessly or squander it…

in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire. "He rakes hot embers." Dryden. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.