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jellyfish. [R.] The jellied quarl that flings At once a thousand streaming stings. J. R. Drake.

See Rakel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Rakelness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

The direction of a rake-vein. Raymond.

ve over or through; as, to range the fields. Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake. Gay.

to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine. "Thou must reillume its spark." J. R. Drake.

l. (Zoöl.) See Ousel. -- Ring parrot (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially Palæornis torquatus, common in India, and P. Alexandri of Java. -- Ring plover. (Zoöl.) (a) The ringed dotterel. (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ri…

The red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake. [Local, U.S.] -- Water robin (Zoöl.), a redstart (Ruticulla fuliginosa), native of India.

oss, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See Cudbear. -- Rock oil. See Petroleum. -- Rock parrakeet (Zoöl.), a small Australian parrakeet (Euphema petrophila), which nests in holes among the rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing quills are deep blue…

Vermilion red; red. [R.] Her face was like the lily roon. J. R. Drake.

A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.

One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase. Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes. Spenser. Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Pope.

lt rising, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient. [U.S.] -- Salt raker, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from the sea. -- Salt sedative (Chem.), boracic acid. [Obs.] -- Salt spring, a spring of salt water. -- Salt tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Halimodendron a…

A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.

ollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake.

To rake; to search. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.

That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle.

lashed to the shrouds just above the dead-eyes and parallel to the ratlines. -- Sheer strake (Shipbuilding), the strake under the gunwale on the top side. Totten. -- To break sheer (Naut.), to deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.