Word Meanings - MALLARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

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.,
DRAKESTONE
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. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run
SKELDRAKE; SKIELDRAKE
The common European sheldrake. The oyster catcher.
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.
SHIELDDRAKE
A sheldrake.
EARTHDRAKE
A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
SHELDRAKE
Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. , which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. Note: It has the head and neck
SEA DRAKE
The pewit gull.
MANDRAKE
A low plant of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in