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The drake fly. The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton. Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton.

int before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.

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

A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl.

plant 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.

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.

The common European sheldrake.

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

nd 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…

A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

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

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

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

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

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

The 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.

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

ckbill, 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 i…