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prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Senegal. Population (2000) = 1, 729, 823. [ PJC ]

[ Perh. fr. W. crecial the daker hen; crec a sharp noise (creg harsh, hoarse, crechian to scream) + iar hen; or cf. D. duiken to dive, plunge. ] (Zool.) The corncrake or land rail.

{ } n. [ See Dicker. ] (O. Eng. & Scots Law) A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., n. See Dacoit, Dacoity. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Dacota /sing>. (Ethnol.) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [ Written also Dacotahs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ An invented name. ] 1. A kind of portable photographic camera, esp. adapted for snapshot work, in which a succession of negatives is made upon a continuous roll of sensitized film; -- originally a trademark name of the Eastman Kodak Company, but from early 1900's through the 1930's it was popularly applied to almost any hand camera. [ Trademark ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. A photograph taken with a kodak. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Kodaked p. pr. & vb. n. Kodaking. ] To photograph with a kodak; hence, to describe or characterize briefly and vividly. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) A wolf (Canis pallipes), found in India, allied to the jackal. [ 1913 Webster ]