Dragon

drag'un, n. (Myth.) A monstrous winged serpent or lizz a r d, with crested head and claws. A fierce, violent person. (Astron.) A northern constellation figured as a dragon. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, moving like a winged serpent a short musket hooked Dragon. to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt, decorated with a dragon's head at the muzzle. (Zool.) A genus of E. Indian reptiles, having an extension of the ribs, covered with a fringe-like arrangement of the skin, which enables to glide through the air for short distances. [In Scripture the term dragon applied to marine fishes or serpents, to venomous land serpents, and to Satan.] [F. and Sp. L. draco, Gr. arak on, sharp-sighted one, f drake in, Skr. dric to see J — Drag'on-fish, n. The dragonet. fly, n. (Entom.) A genus of swift insects, having strongly reticulated wings and along body.— Drag'- on's-blood. n. A red, resinous substance obtained from several tropical trees. — -head, n. (Bot.) A plant of several species. (Astron.) The ascending node of—a planet, indicated in almanacs by the symbol A tail, n. The descending node of a planet, indicated by y. — Drag'onet, n. A little dragon. (Ichth.) A fish of the goby family. — Dragoon', -goon', n. (Mil.) A cavalry soldier, — formerly trained to serve also on foot. — v. [dragooned (-goond'), -gooning.] To reduce to subjection or persecute, by soldiers to hara , force, persecute. [F. and Sp., dragoon, also dragon, perh. using the musket so named.] — Dragoon'-bird, n. Ornith.) A Brazilian bird, having a large_crest of feathers above the — Drag'onade', -nad', n. The persecution of French Protestants by soldiery under Louis XIV. any devastating incursion.