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[ -ites.] A dragon-stone. Haue in your rings eyther a Smaragd, a Saphire, or a Draconites, which you shall beare for an ornament: for in stones, as also in hearbes, there is great efficacie. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 257. IMG:content-3120.png:[blocks in formation] drachma of the Æginetic sys tem weighed 97 grains; of the Grecs Asiatic, 56 grains; of the Rhodian, 60 grains; of the Babylonic, 84 grains; and of the Persian, 88 grains. Roughly speaking, the average value of the ancient drachma may be said to have been about the same as that of the modern one, or the French franc, but its purchasing power was considerably greater. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, There's a drachm to purchase gingerbread for thy muse. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 1. The only cartel I remember in ancient history is that between Demetrius Pol i or cetes and the Rhodians, when it was agreed that a free citizen should be restored for 1000 drachmas , and a slave bearing arms for 500. Hume , E ays, ii. 11. 2. A silver coin of the modern kingdom of Greece, by law of the same value as the French franc, equal to 19.3 United States cents. It is divided into 100 lepta.-3. A weight among the ancient Greeks, being that of the silver coin. See dram. dracina, dracine (dra-si'nă, drā'sin), n. [NL. dracina, nishes. Also called drac on in. Draco (drā kō), n. [L. draco ( drac on- ), dragon and drake2.] 1. One of the ancient northern constellations, the Dragon.-2. [ l. c.] A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds. Imp. Dict. 3. A genus of old-world acrodont lizards, of the family Agamid a, having a parachute formed of the integument stretched over extended hinder ribs, by means of which the animal protracts its leaps into a kind of flight. Draco volans, of the Malay peninsula, is the common flying lizard or dragon. See dragon, 2. Dracocephalum (dra-kō-sef'a-lum), n. [NL., Draconically (dra-kon'i-kal-i), adv. In a Draconic manner; severely; rigorously. drac on in (drak'ō-nin), n. Same as dracina. Drac on inæ (drak-o-ni'nē), n. pl. [NL., δρακόντιον, a plant of the arum kind, polyphyllum said to be used as a for snake-bites and as an emmenagogue. 2. [l. c.] The pharmaceutical name for the root of the skunk-cabbage, Symplocarpus fæti dus (sometimes called Dracontium fœtidum). The root is used as an acrid irritant, as an antispasmodic, etc.