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Drabble (?), v. i. To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.
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Drabbler (?), n. (Naut.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
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Drabble-tail (?), n. A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.
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Dracæna (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � she-dragon.] (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
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☞ Dracæna Draco, the source of the dragon's blood of the Canaries, forms a tree, sometimes of gigantic size.
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Dracanth (?), n. A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See .
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Drachm (?), n. [See .] 1. A drachma.
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2. Same as .
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Drachma (?), n.; pl. E. Drachmas (#), L. Drachmæ (#). [L., fr. Gr. �. See .] 1. A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents (U. S. currency, ca. ).
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2. A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.
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3. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.
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Drachme (?), n. [F.] See .
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Dracin (?), n. [Cf. F. dracine.] (Chem.) See .
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Draco (?), n. [L. See .] 1. (Astron.) The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.
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2. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.
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3. (Zoöl.) A genus of lizards. See , 6.
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Dracocephalum prop. n. A genus of American herbs and dwarf shrubs of the mind family; the dragonheads.
Syn. -- genus Dracocephalum.
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Draconian (?), a. Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c. Used especially in the phrase Draconian punishment.
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Coloq. Draconian code , or Coloq. Draconian laws , a code of laws made by Draco. Their measures were so severe that they were said to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of excessive rigor. -- Coloq. Draconian punishment , punishment so severe as to seem excessive for the crime being punished.
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Draconic (?), a. Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.
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Draconin (?), n. [Cf. F. draconine. See .] (Chem.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.
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Dracontic (?), a. [From L. draco dragon, in allusion to the terms dragon's head and dragon's tail.] (Astron.) Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under . [Obs.] “Dracontic month.” Crabb.
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Dracontine (?), a. [L. draco dragon.] Belonging to a dragon. Southey.
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Dracunculus (?), n.; pl. Dracunculi (#). [L., dim. of draco dragon.] (Zoöl.) (a) A fish; the dragonet. (b) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis).
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Drad (?), p. p. & a. Dreaded. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Dradde (?), imp. of . [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Dradge (?), n. (Min.) Inferior ore, separated from the better by cobbing. Raymond.
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Draff (?), n. [Cf. D. draf the sediment of ale, Icel. draf draff, husks. Cf. 1st .] Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
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Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks. Shak.
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The draff and offal of a bygone age. Buckle.
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Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson.
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Draffish, a. Worthless; draffy. Bale.
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Draffy (?), a. Dreggy; waste; worthless.
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The dregs and draffy part. Beau. & Fl.
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Draft (drȧft), n. [The same word as draught. OE. draught, draht, fr. AS. dragan to draw. See , and cf. .] 1. The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as .
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Everything available for draft burden. S. G. Goodrich.
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2. (Mil.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.
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Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year. Marshall.
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3. An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.
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I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. A. Hamilton.
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4. An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods. Simmonds.
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5. A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See .
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6. The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See .
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7. (Masonry) (a) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face. (b) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
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8. (Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
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9. (Naut.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See .
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10. A current of air. Same as .
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11. A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose.
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12. The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn.
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13. A device for regulating the flow of gases in a chimney, stovepipe, fireplace, etc.; as, to close the chimney draft. It is usually a flat plate of the same internal dimensions as the flue, which can be rotated to be parallel to or perpendicular to the current of gases.
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Draft, a. 1. Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as ; as, a draft horse.
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2. Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as .
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☞ The forms draft and draught, in the senses above-given, are both in approved use.
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Coloq. Draft box , Coloq. Draft engine , Coloq. Draft horse , Coloq. Draft net , Coloq. Draft ox , Coloq. Draft tube . Same as Draught box, Draught engine, etc. See under .
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Draft (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Drafting.] 1. To draw the outline of; to delineate.
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2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
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3. To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select; especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a population to serve in the armed forces.
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HotLips Houlihan: How did a degenerate person like him achieve such a position of responsibility in the army? Radar: He was drafted. MASH (the movie)

Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.
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4. To transfer by draft.
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All her rents been drafted to London. Fielding.
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drafting n. 1. writing a first version to be filled out and polished later.
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2. the craft of drawing blueprints.
Syn. -- mechanical drawing.
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3. a creation of artistic drawings.
Syn. -- drawing, draftsmanship.
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Draftsman (?), n. See .
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draftsmanship n. the creation of artistic drawings.
Syn. -- drawing, drafting.
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draftsperson n. a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.
Syn. -- draftsman, draughtsman.
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drafty adj. not airtight; allowing in currents of air, especially uncomfortably cold air; -- of buildings.
Syn. -- draughty.
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Drag (?), n. [See 3d .] A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Drag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dragging (?).] [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. � See .] 1. To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
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Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. Denham.
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The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Tennyson.
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A needless Alexandrine ends the song
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.
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2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
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Then while I dragged my brains for such a song. Tennyson.
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3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
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Have dragged a lingering life. Dryden.
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Coloq. To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship.

Syn. -- See .
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Drag, v. i. 1. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
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2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
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The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. Byron.
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Long, open panegyric drags at best. Gay.
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3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
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A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her. Russell.
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4. To fish with a dragnet.
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Drag, n. [See , v. t., and cf. a cart, and 1st .] 1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
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2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
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3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
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4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] Thackeray.
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5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
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6. (a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
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My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. J. D. Forbes.
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7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. “Had a drag in his walk.” Hazlitt.
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8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
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9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
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10. (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under , v. i., 3.
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Coloq. Drag sail (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also drift sail, drag sheet, drag anchor, sea anchor, floating anchor, etc. -- Coloq. Drag twist (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes.
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Dragantine (?), n. [See .] A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth.
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Dragbar (?), n. Same as (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink. [U. S.]
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Dragbolt (?), n. A coupling pin. See under . [U. S.]
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dragee n. 1. sugar-coated medication.
Syn. -- dragées. [WordNet 1.5]

2. silver-coated candy bead for decorating cakes.
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3. sugar-coated nut or fruit piece.
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Dragées (?), n. pl. [F. See 3d .] (Pharmacy) Sugar-coated medicines.
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dragging adj. painfully or tediously slow and boring; as, the dragging minutes.
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Draggle (drăgg'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Draggled (drăgg'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Draggling (drăgglĭng).] [Freq. of drag. √73. Cf. .] To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray.
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With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.
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Draggle, v. i. To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass. Hudibras.
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draggled adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud.
Syn. -- bedraggled.
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Draggle-tail (?), n. A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
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Draggle-tailed (?), a. Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.
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{ Drag line or Drag rope }. (Aëronautics) A guide rope.
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Draglink (?), n. (Mach.) (a) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts. (b) A drawbar.
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Dragman (?), n.; pl. Dragmen (�). A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Sir M. Hale.
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Dragnet (?), n. [Cf. AS. drægnet.] A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
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Dragoman (?), n.; pl. Dragomans (#). [From F. dragoman, or Sp. dragoman, or It. dragomanno; all fr. LGr. �, Ar. tarjumān, from the same source as E. targum. Cf. , .] An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.
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dragon (drăgŭn), n. [F. dragon, L. draco, fr. Gr. drakwn, prob. fr. derkesqai, drakein, to look (akin to Skr. darç to see), and so called from its terrible eyes. Cf. a dragon, .] 1. (Myth.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
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The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt.
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☞ In Scripture the term dragon refers to any great monster, whether of the land or sea, usually to some kind of serpent or reptile, sometimes to land serpents of a powerful and deadly kind. It is also applied metaphorically to Satan.
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Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Ps. lxxiv. 13.
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Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Ps. xci. 13.
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He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. Rev. xx. 2.
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2. A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. Johnson.
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3. (Astron.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
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4. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
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5. (Mil. Antiq.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. Fairholt.
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6. (Zoöl.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.
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7. (Zoöl.) A variety of carrier pigeon.
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8. (Her.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
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☞ Dragon is often used adjectively, or in combination, in the sense of relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a dragon.
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Coloq. Dragon arum (Bot.), the name of several species of Arisæma, a genus of plants having a spathe and spadix. See Dragon root(below). -- Coloq. Dragon fish (Zoöl.), the dragonet. -- Coloq. Dragon fly (Zoöl.), any insect of the family Libellulidæ. They have finely formed, large and strongly reticulated wings, a large head with enormous eyes, and a long body; -- called also mosquito hawks. Their larvæ are aquatic and insectivorous. -- Coloq. Dragon root (Bot.), an American aroid plant (Arisæma Dracontium); green dragon. -- Coloq. Dragon's blood , a resinous substance obtained from the fruit of several species of Calamus, esp. from Calamus Rotang and Calamus Draco, growing in the East Indies. A substance known as dragon's blood is obtained by exudation from Dracæna Draco; also from Pterocarpus Draco, a tree of the West Indies and South America. The color is red, or a dark brownish red, and it is used chiefly for coloring varnishes, marbles, etc. Called also Cinnabar Græcorum. -- Coloq. Dragon's head . (a) (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Dracocephalum. They are perennial herbs closely allied to the common catnip. (b) (Astron.) The ascending node of a planet, indicated, chiefly in almanacs, by the symbol �. The deviation from the ecliptic made by a planet in passing from one node to the other seems, according to the fancy of some, to make a figure like that of a dragon, whose belly is where there is the greatest latitude; the intersections representing the head and tail; -- from which resemblance the denomination arises. Encyc. Brit. -- Coloq. Dragon shell (Zoöl.), a species of limpet. -- Coloq. Dragon's skin , fossil stems whose leaf scars somewhat resemble the scales of reptiles; -- a name used by miners and quarrymen. Stormonth. -- Coloq. Dragon's tail (Astron.), the descending node of a planet, indicated by the symbol �. See Dragon's head (above). -- Coloq. Dragon's wort (Bot.), a plant of the genus Artemisia (Artemisia dracunculus). -- Coloq. Dragon tree (Bot.), a West African liliaceous tree (Dracæna Draco), yielding one of the resins called dragon's blood. See . -- Coloq. Dragon water , a medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of the 17th century. “Dragon water may do good upon him.” Randolph (1640). -- Coloq. Flying dragon , a large meteoric fireball; a bolide.
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Dragonet (?), n. 1. A little dragon. Spenser.
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2. (Zoöl.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.
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Dragonish, a. resembling a dragon. Shak.
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Dragonlike (-līk), a. Like a dragon. Shak.
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