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A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion.

olate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson.

A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.

The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.

Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.

A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.

ime in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon. [Obs.] "Dracontic month." Crabb.

Belonging to a dragon. Southey.

A fish; the dragonet.

See Dragonnade.

A dragon. [Obs.] Beowulf resolves to kill the drake. J. A. Harrison (Beowulf).

A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings. King Alisaunder (1332).

n; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store,…

A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.

fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay.

n, one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns." Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). -- Fig gnat (Zoöl.), a small fly said to be injurious to figs. -- Fig leaf, the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis i…

A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl.

winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.

The European dragonet.

The european dragonet. See Dragonet.