Rake"hell` (?), n. [See Rakel.]

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.

It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.

 

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Rake"hell`, Rake"hell`y, a.

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.

[Obs.]

Spenser. B. Jonson.

 

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