rakehelly 
rakehelly (rak'hel-i),. t<''"' r/ "'" + -.'/' t'f. raking 1 <ra'king),;.. [Ppr.ofr/,rl,r.] Such 
niki'li/.] Like or characteristic of :i rakehell. as to rake: an, :i r<tl:ni</ (ire. 
iKomeandipaeoattlwraUM^iRMitaofaarnaed raking 2 (ra'king), p. a. [Ppr .of HI !.< . r.J 
rymers. ,v ; . : ,,..v,, shc.p. dil., Dnl. dining; having a rake or inclination.- Raking 
Dissipated. n,,t to sav rakehell,/, countenances. bond, molding, ete. See the nouns. 
J. Payn, Mystery of Mirbriilge, p. :ii rakmg-piece (ra king-pes), it. 
centering, a piece laid upon the sill supported 
by the footing or impost of a pier. I'pon the rak- 
ing-pieces rest the striking-plates, which support the ribs 
of the centering, and are driven in to allow the centering 
to drop clear when the arch is completed. 
2. Ill a theater,a low and pointed bit of scenery 
. _ , , .. . . used to mask an incline. 
see rake?. Cf. Icel. rxkall, Sw. rakel, Dan. rakish 1 (ra'kish), o. [<rakc3 + -ish 1 .] Naut., 
rally 
in nearly all parts of the world, in swamps ami marshes. 
See cuts under ami. gattiimle, Pnrzana, and Jlallux. 
rallier 1 (ral'i-or), n. [< i-<i//.i/l + -trl.] One 
who rallies or reassembles; one who reunites, 
as disordered or scattered forces. 
1. In a bridge- rallier-' (ral'i-.-r), . [< wit,,* + -erl.] One 
" . , ...i.,. ....n;...- .... l ..,,.* ..,.^. ruoaui \ IMMI /I*/-/ 
rakelt, " and . [Early mod. E. also 
Si-, nifkcl; < ME. rakel, raklc, rni-h-, rakyl, rakil. 
hasty, rash, wild, < Icel. rcikull, reikull, wan- 
dering, unsettled (< Icel. reika, wander, roam: 
see rake*) ; cf. Sw. dial, rakkel, a vagabond, < 
rakkla, wander, rove, freq. of raka, run hastily : 
see rake*. Cf. Icel. reekall, Sw. rakel, Dan. ,, _ . ,._,. _, r .. 
rxkcl, a hound, lout, used as a term of abuse.] having an unusual amount of rake or mclina- p a ] u( Jicolo precocial grallatorial birds, repre- 
tion of the masts, as a vessel. The piratical gente( j Dy the family Rattldse in a broad sense 
..,,., i't ,-,-P (', , i.i . n ,1- f imoo T*r*it>ti Hiat.lTKTIlieVl Afl TOT i- il ;i~ . . 1 , \ ..'... . , M I . , . in /I Joii-n 
wlio rallies or banters. [Bare.] Imp. Diet. 
ralliform (ral'i-form), a. [{ NL. rullij'intii*, 
< JlnlliiK, a rail, + L. forma, form.] Having 
the structure of or an affinity with the rails ; ral- 
line in a broad sense ; of or pertaining to the 
RalliJ or in (:. 
Ralli'formes (ral-i-for'mez), n. pi. [NL. , pi. of 
ralliformis: see ralliform.} A superfamily of 
I. a. Rash; hasty. 
rakel hand, to doon so foule amys. 
Chaucer, Manciple's Tale, 1. 174. 
craft of former times were distinguished for 
their rakish build. 
But when they found, as they soon did, that the beauti- 
ful, roHsA-looking schooner was averse to piracy, and care- 
less of plunder, . . . they declared first neutrality, then 
adhesion. Whyte Melvitte, White Rose, II. i. 
Macaulay. 
II. n. A dissolute man. See rakehell. 
rakelt, *' * [ME. raklen; < rakel, a.] To act 
rashly or hastily. 
Ne I nyl not ratde as for to greven here. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1642. rakish 2 (ra'kish), o. [<rake* + -tsh 1 .] 1. Re- 
rakelnesset, . [< ME. rakelnesse, haste, rash- sembling or given to the practices of a rake; 
ness; < rakel + -ness.} Hastiness; rashness. given to a dissolute life; lewd; debauched. 
O every man, be war of rakelnees, The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. 
Ne trowe no thyng withouten strong witnesse. 
Chaucer, Manciple's Tale, 1. 179. 2. Jaunty. 
rakelyt, a. [< rake* + -ly 1 . Cf. rakehelly.] rakishly(ra'kish-li),a<fc. .. 
Rakish- rakehelly I" a rakish or dissolute manner. 2. Jauntily. 
Our rakely young Fellows live as much by their Wits rakishneSS 1 (ra'kish- nes), n [< rakish 1 + 
as ever. C. Shadwell, Humours of the Army (1713). -ness.] The aspect of a rakish vessel. 
raker (ra'ker), n. [< ME. rakere, rakyer; < 
rake 1 + -er 1 .] 1 . One who or that which rakes. 
Specifically (o) A person who uses a rake; formerly, a 
scavenger or street-cleaner. 
Their business was declared to be that they should hire 
persons called rakers, with carts, to clean the streets and 
carry away the dirt and filth thereof, under a penalty of 
40. ~Mayheu>, London Labour and London Poor, II. 232. 
rakishness- (ra'kish-nes), . [< rakish 2 + 
-ness.] 1. The character of being rakish or 
dissolute ; dissoluteness. 
II the lawyer had been presuming on Mrs. Transome's 
ignorance as a woman, or on the stupid rakiihness of the 
original heir, the new hen- would prove to him that he 
had calculated rashly. George Eliot, Felix Holt, ii. 
2. Jauntiuess. 
(6) A machine for raking hay, straw, etc., by hone or other ra tt e t A Middle English form of rack 1 . 
power, (c) An instrument for raking out the ashes from 'rrr'v' , , A , r - or . t of;.,,/ 
a fire or grate; in locomotives, a self-acting contrivance raklet, r. I. A variant ot rakel. 
for cleaning the grate, (d) A gun so placed as to rake an rakshas, rakshasa (rak shas, rak sha-sa), It. 
enemy's vessel. [Skt.] In Hind, myth., one of a class of evil 
Down ! she 's welcome to us : spirits or genii. They are cruel monsters, frequenting 
Every man to his charge ! man her i' the bow well, cemeteries, devouring human heings, and assuming any 
And place your rakers right. shape at pleasure. They are generally hideous, but some, 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, ii. 1. especially the females, allure by their beauty. 
(e) A piece of iron having pointed ends bent at right Rakllsian (ra-ku'si-an), H. [Ar.] A member 
S^^^^'^^^^^^^^irA^ 
2. A rake-like row of internal branchial arch Little is known of it, but its tenets appear to 
appendages of some fishes. See gill-raker. be a further corruption of those of the Men- 
rakery (ra'ker-i), it. [< rake* + -e'ry.} The con- dseans or Sabians. Blunt. 
duct or practices of a rake ; dissoluteness, rale (ral), n. [< F. rdle, OF. male, rasle, rat- 
tling in the throat, < F. raler, OF. ratter, rattle, 
< LG. ratelen, rateln, rattle: see rattle. Cf. 
rail*.] In palliol., an abnormal sound heard 
on auscultation of the lungs, additional to and 
not merely a modification of the normal re- 
spiratory murmur Cavernous rale. See cavern- 
out. Crepitant rale, a very fine crackling rale heard 
during inspiration in the first stage of pneumonia. Also 
called vesicular rale.'Drj rale, a non-bubbling respira- 
tory rale, caused by constriction of a bronchial tube or 
larger air-passage. The high-pitched whistling dry rale is 
called a sibilant rdle, and the low-pitched snoring dry rale 
containing the rails and their allies, as distin- 
guished from the Gruiformes, or related birds 
of the crane type. 
Rallinae (ra-H'ne), n.pl. [NL., < Rallus + -inae.] 
The leading subfamily of Rallidse, including the 
genus Rallus and related genera ; the rails. The 
species are strictly paludicole ; the body is greatly com- 
pressed ; the form tapers in front, and is thick-set behind, 
with a short tipped-up tail; the wings are short and 
rounded ; the tail has twelve feathers ; the thighs are very 
muscular, and the flank-feathers are notably colored ; the 
tibise are naked below ; the tarsi are scutellate in front ; 
and the toes are long, cleft to the base, and not lobed or 
obviously margined. Besides Kallus, the leading genera 
are Ponana and Crex. There are about 60 species, found 
in most countries. 
ralline (ral'in), a. [NL.,<BaHs + -inei.] Per- 
taining or related to the genus Rallus or fam- 
ily Rallidee; resembling a rail; ralliform in a 
narrow sense. 
rallum (ral'um), .; pi. ralla (-a). [L., < ra- 
dere, scrape, scratch: see rase*, raw*.] An 
implement used as a scraper by husbandmen 
among the Romans, consisting of a straight 
handle and a triangular blade Rallum-shaped, 
growing wider toward the end and terminating squarely, 
as the blade of a stylus. 
Kallus (ral'us), . [NL., < F. rdle, OF. rasle, a 
rail: see rail*.] The leading genus of Rallinx, 
containing the true rails, water-rails, or marsh- 
practices 
[Rare.] 
He ... instructed his lordship in all the rakery and 
intrigues of the lewd town. 
Roger North, Lord Guilford, II. 300. 
rakeshamet (rak'sham), n. [< rakel, v . t + O bj. 
shame, n., as if ' one who gathers shame to him- 
self; formed in moral amendment of rakehell.] 
A vile, dissolute wretch. 
Tormentors, rooks, and rakeshames, sold to lucre. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
VitKlnia Rail (Rallus virf inianusl. 
[Also dial, rnkestele; 
A rake-handle. 
rakestalet (rak'stai), . 
< rake 1 + stale'i, steal 2 .] 
That tale is not worth a rakeslele. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 93. 
rake-vein (rak' van), H. In lead-mining, in Eng- 
land, a vortical or highly inclined fissure-vein, 
is called 3 sonorous rale. Moist rales, bubbling rales, fine 
, _____________ 
as distinguished from the flat-vein, or flat, and Ralfsia (ralf 'si-a), H. [NL. (Berkeley), named 
hens, having the bill longer than the head, slen- 
, - . . der, compressed, and decurved, with long nasal 
or coarse, produced by liquid or semiliquid in the bron- groove and linear subbasal nostrils, and the 
^S^^^^^&^SS^^ coloration plain below, but with conspicuously 
tion sound, or metallic tinkling, or a succnssion sound. banded flanks, bee nut*. 
Subcrepitant rale, a very fine bronchial bubbling rale, rally 1 (ral'i), v. ; pret. and pp. rallied, ppr. ral- 
Vesicular rale. Same as crepitant rdle. i-n__i i .._i7.-. s rvn u.- 
the pipe-vein (a mass of ore filling an irregu- 
larly elongated cavern-like opening). [Derby- 
shire, Eng.] 
raki rakee (rak'e), n. [< Turk. raki. spirits, 
.,n,rf.-i..] A,i.ri.,,.,o- 
in honor of Jotin Rolfs, an English botanist.] 
A small genus of olive-brown seaweeds of the 
class Plifeosporex, type of the order Ralfsiacese. 
They are rather small homely plants, growing on stones, 
weeds, typified by the genus Ralfsia. The fronds 
are horizontally expanded, sometimes crustaceous; and 
fructification is in raised spots, composed of a few club- 
shaped paraphyses and spheroidal sporangia. 
An abbreviation of rallentando. 
matic 
spirit, 
juice, as in the Levant. 
The hill-men on such occasions consume a coarse sort of 
rakee made from corn. 
IF. H. Russell, Diary in India, II. 181. 
Raw grain spirit, which is used in the country for mak- 
ing raki U. S Com. Rep No. Ixviii. (1886X p. 40 --j- (ral-len-tan'do), a. [It., ppr. of ralr 
raking 1 (ra'king), n. [< ME. rakynge ; verbal hntarc _ F . ralcntir, slacken, relent, abate, re- 
n. of rake 1 , v.] I. The art of using a rake ; a 
gathering or clearance with or as if with a 
rake ; also, that which is raked or raked up. 
But such a raking was never seen 
As the raking o' the Rullien Green. 
Battle of Pentland Hills (Child's Ballads, VII. 242). 
2. The act of raking into or exploring some- 
thing; hence, a rigid scrutiny or examination; 
a depreciatory overhauling; censorious criti- 
tard: see relent.] In music, becoming slower; 
with decreasing rapidity. Also rallentato. Ab- 
breviated roll. Compare ritardando and ritni it In. 
ralliancet (ral'i-ans), n. [< rally 1 + -ance.] 
The act of rallying. [Rare.] Imp. Diet. 
Rallidae (ral'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Rallus + 
-idee.] A family of paludicole grallatorial pre- 
cocial birds, typified by the genus Rallus, and 
divided into RalUnie, Galliniilins 1 , and l-'ulicinir, 
lying. [Early mod. E. rallie, < OF. rallier. ra- 
Herj F. rallier, rally, < re-, again, + alier, allier, 
bind, ally : see ally 1 , and cf. rely 1 and rely 2 .] I. 
trans. 1 . To bring together or into order again 
by urgent effort ; urge or bring to reunion for 
joint action; hence, to draw or call together 
in general for a common purpose: as, to rally 
a disorganized army; to rally voters to the 
polls. 
There 's no help now ; 
The army 'B scatter'd all, through discontent, 
Not to be rallied up in haste to help this. 
Fletcher, Loyal Subject, iii. 1. 
2. To call up or together, unite, draw, gather 
up, concentrate, etc.. energetically. 
Prompts them to rally all their sophistry. 
Decay of Christian Piety. 
Grasping his foe in mortal agony, he rallied his strength 
for a final blow. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 7. 
Philip rallied himself, and tried to speak up to the old 
standard of respectability. 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xxiiv. 
II. in trans. 1. To come together or into or- 
der again with haste or ardor ; reunite ener- 
getically; hence, to gather or become conjoined 
The average common school received a rakiny which 
would even gratify the sharp-set critical appetite. 
Jour, of Education, XVIII. 136. 
or vails, gallinules, and coots, to which some add tor a common end; cohere for aid or support. 
, . 
Oci/<lroiHi>t;r and Hii/ifiHtornitliiiise; the rails and 
their allies. There are upward of 150 species, found 
And then we rally'd on the hills. 
Up'and War Them A', Willie (Child's Ballads, VII. 2SO> 
