DRAGON
\dɹˈaɡən], \dɹˈaɡən], \d_ɹ_ˈa_ɡ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DRAGON
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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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A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
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A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
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A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
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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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A variety of carrier pigeon.
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A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
By Oddity Software
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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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A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
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A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
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A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
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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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A variety of carrier pigeon.
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A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
By Noah Webster.
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A very large, imaginary animal represented in fables or stories as a winged serpent or lizard; a fierce person.
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Flerce; destructive.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A fabulous winged serpent: the constellation Draco: a fierce person: the flying lizard of the E. Indies.
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DRAGONISH, DRAGONLIKE.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Latin] A fabulous winged serpent or lizard, with crested head and enormous claws, regarded as very powerful and ferocious;—it is used in Scripture for Satan or the devil;—a fierce, violent person;—a northern constellation;—a short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt—a genus of reptiles in the East Indies.
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