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See Dragonnade.

A dragoon. [Obs.]

Gum tragacanth. Brande & C.

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift.

A raid. [Obs.]

An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.

The thing thus caught abd eaten. Johnson. Cakes and ale, and flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley.

A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic.

A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.

itle assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.

Consisting of forty; forty years old.

An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.

The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.

Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.

A dragonet, or sculpin.

ally the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.