| Drake | n. [ Akin to LG. drake, OHG. antrache, anetrecho, G. enterich, Icel. andriki, Dan. andrik, OSw. andrak, andrage, masc., and fr. AS. ened, fem., duck; akin to D. eend, G. ente, Icel. önd, Dan. and, Sw. and, Lith. antis, L. anas, Gr. &unr_; (for &unr_;), and perh. Skr. āti a water fowl. √207. In English the first part of the word was lost. The ending is akin to E. rich. Cf. Gulaund. ] 1. The male of the duck kind. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. [ Cf. Dragon fly, under Dragon. ] The drake fly. [ 1913 Webster ] The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. [ 1913 Webster ]
The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Drake | n. [ AS. draca dragon, L. draco. See Dragon. ] 1. A dragon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Beowulf resolves to kill the drake. J. A. Harrison (Beowulf). [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A small piece of artillery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Drake | n. [ Cf. F. dravik, W. drewg, darnel, cockle, etc. ] Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [ Prov. Eng. ] Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Drakestone | n. A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. [ 1913 Webster ] Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ] |
