dragon standard (dragon stan"dard)

Same as dragon, 6. dragon-tree (drag'on-trē), n. Draco. See Dracana. dragon-water (drag'on-water), n. A medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of A common Dragon-fly ( Libellula trimaculata ), natural size. brilliancy of their hues. The great dragon-fly, Æschna grand is, is about 4 inches long. Most of the species are considerably smaller than this. The eggs are usually attached to the stems of aquatic plants, just below the surface of the water. The larva is predaceous, and lives on other water insects the pupa is active and crawls from into the imago. The adult is also predaceous, catching to plant-stem or rock, where it its prey upon the wing. Libellula trimaculata is a common species in the United States. Also called damsel fly, devil's darning - needle, and mosquito - hawk. And it may be that the delicate-coloured dragon - flies may have likewise some corrosive quality. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 729. The burnished dragon - fly is thine attendant, And tilts against the field, And down the listed sunbeam rides resplendent, With steel-blue mail and shield. Long fellow , Flower-de-Luce. dragoniert, n. [OF., also dragonnier , dragon , a dragon: see dragon .] Same as dragon . dragonish (drag'on-ish), a . [ dragon + -ish .] In the form of a dragon; dragon-like. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish: A vapour, sometime, like a bear or lion. Shak., A. and C., iv. 12. IMG:content-3128.png:[blocks in formation]