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

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  1. n. A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.
  2. a. Alt. of Rakehelly
  3. n. a dissolute man in fashionable society
  4. 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. Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.
  5. A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and arakehell do not go together. Barrow.
  6. n a dissolute man in fashionable society