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resembling a dragon. Shak.

Like a dragon. Shak.

; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.

An aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East Indies, and Australia. [Written also duyong.]

A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

The formation of an embryo.

A plane figure of eleven sides and angles.

A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.

e, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale. Macaulay.

To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.] See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak.

A French baggage wagon.

Of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth.

The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.

Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face. Dryden.

See Gorgoniacea.

See Gorgonian, 1.

A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes.

A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.