Word Meanings - DRAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) enterich, Icel. andriki, Dan. andrik, OSw. andrak, andrage, masc.,

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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. (more info) 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. ati a water fowl. rich. 1. The male of the duck kind. 2. Etym:

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• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• ANGLICIZE
  To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• DRAKE
  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. (more info) enterich, Icel. andriki, Dan. andrik, OSw. andrak, andrage, masc.,
• ANGLE
  A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• ANGLO-CATHOLIC
  Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• MOUNTEBANK
  1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
• MOUNT
  A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. (more info) montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. 1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding
• ANGLICIZATION
  The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.
• MOUNTENAUNCE
  Mountance.
• ANGLICANISM
  1. Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England. 2. The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party. 3. Attachment to England or English
• MOUNTER
  1. One who mounts. 2. An animal mounted; a monture.
• ANGLEWISE
  In an angular manner; angularly.
• AUGUSTAN
  1. Of or pertaining to Augustus Cæsar or to his times. 2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of
• SPANGLY
  Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• BRANGLE
  A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• SKELDRAKE; SKIELDRAKE
  The common European sheldrake. The oyster catcher.
• QUINQUEANGLED
  Having five angles; quinquangular.
• TRIANGLE
  A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A
• WIDE-ANGLE
  Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100º and are useful for photographing
• GANGLIFORM; GANGLIOFORM
  Having the form of a ganglion.
• FIREDRAKE
  1. A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl. 2. A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket. 3. A worker at a furnace or fire. B. Jonson.
• FANGLE
  Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.