drag link (draglingk)

1. In marine engines, a link connecting the crank of the main shaft with that of the inner paddle-shaft.-2. A drag-bar. dragman (drag'man), n.; pl. dragmen (-men). A fisherman who uses a drag-net. To which may be added the great riots committed by the Foresters and Welsh on the dragmen of Severn, hewing all their boats to pieces. Sir M. Hale, Hist. Plac. Cor., xiv. § 7. drag-net (drag'net), n. [ drag + net ; AS. drægnet Icel. dragnet = Sw. Dan. drag not .] A net designed to be drawn on the bottom of a river or pond for taking fish, etc. dragoman (drag'ō-man), n.; pl. dragomans (-manz) (sometimes dragomen, by confusion with E. man; cf. Mu ulman). [In several forms: (1) E. dragoman = G. Dan. Sw. drago man, brated in Christian literature. The dragon is the imperial emblem of China, and is regarded by the Chinese as a sort of divinity, but by other peoples generally as the type and embodiment of fiercene and cruelty or watchful malice. In the Apocalypse "the dragon, that old serpent" is a synonym of Satan (Rev. xx. 2). In the Old Testament it is either a large land-animal or a great marine fish (Isa. xxxiv. 13-revised version, jackal; Ps. Ixxiv. 13-revised version, dragon), a venomous land-serpent (Ps. xci. 13revised version, serpent), or the crocodile (Ezek. xxix. 3nim is also sometimes translated whale (Gen. 1. 21 than revised version, dragon). The same Hebrew word, vised version, sea-monster; Job vii. 12-revised version, sea-monster). The extinct pterodactyl comes nearest of of all known creatures to the most prevalent conception of a dragon. Eftsoones that dreadful Dragon they espyde, Where stretcht he lay upon the sunny side Of a great hill, himselfe like a great hill. Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 4. IMG:content-3125.png:[blocks in formation] dragonet one of the monitor-lizards. Griffith's Cuvier. (c) In ornith., a kind of carrier-pigeon. Also called dragoon. The English Dragon differs from the improved English Carrier in being smaller in all its dimensions. Darwin , Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 146. 3. A fierce, violent person, male or female; now, more generally (from the part of guardian often played by the dragon in mythology), a spiteful, watchful woman; a duenna. Peggy O'Dowd is indeed the same as ever;... a tyrant over her Michael; a dragon amongst all the ladies of the regiment. Thackeray , Vanity Fair, xliii. 4. [ cap.] An ancient northern constellation, Draco. The figure is that of a serpent with several small coils. It appears at a very ancient date to have had wings in the space now occupied by the Little Bear. 5. A short firearm used by dragoons in the seventeenth century, described as having a barrel 16 inches long, with a large bore. Grose.-6. An old kind of standard or military ensign, so called because it was decorated with a dragon painted or embroidered upon it, or because it consisted (like the Anglo-Saxon standard at Hastings, as seen in the Bayeux tapestry) of a figure of a dragon carried upon a staff. A similar standard was in use as late as the reign of Richard I. in England, and is especially mentioned as being in his cru sading army. Also called dragon - standard. See drake2, 2. Edmond ydygt hys standard. And hys dragon up yset. Robert of Gloucester , p. 303. Ther gonfanouns and her pensel les Wer weel wroght off grene sendels, And on everylkon a dragoun As he fought with a lyoun. Richard Coer de Lion, 1. 2967. 7. A name given to various araceous plants, as in England to Arum maculatum; the brown dragon, Arisæma triphyllum; the green dragon, Dracunculus vulgar is, and in the United States Arisæma Dracontium; the female or water dragon, Calla palustris.-8. In Scotland, a paper kite. - 9t. See the extract. A dragon is a small Malacca cane, so called from its blood-red colour. Dobson, Selections from Steele, p. 479, note. Demi-dragon, in her ., the upper half of a dragon with head and fore paws (see dem i- ), but always including the extremity of the tail, which appears brought up behind the back. - Dragon china, in ceram . , a table porcelain made at Broseley in England, decorated with a design of dragons imitated from Oriental patterns. See porcelain . -Dragon's head and tail, in astrol ., the nodes of the planets, especially of the moon, or the two points in which the orbits of the planets intersect the ecliptic: so called because the figure representing the pa age of a planet from one node to the other was fancied to resemble that of a dragon. The dragon's head was the point where the planet pa es from the southern to the northern side of the ecliptic; the dragon's tail, the other. - Dragon's wings, in her ., the two wings of a dragon used as a bearing. They are generally represented as displayed, and sometimes a spear or other object is shown between them. Gum dragon. See tragacanth. II. a . Pertaining to or resembling dragons; performed by dragons; fierce; formidable. The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth. Shak ., T. and C., v. 9. Beauty... had need the guard Of dragon -watch with unenchanted eye. Milton , Comus, 1. 395. dragonade, dragonnade (drag-o-nād'), n. [Also written dragoonade; He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades , the tortures, the ma acres of the Netherlands. Kingsley . dragon-beam (drag'on-bēm), n. In arch., a beam or piece of timber bisecting the angle formed by the wall-plate at a corner, and serving to receive and support the foot of a hip rafter. Also called dragon - piece .