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bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. Denham. The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Tennyson. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That,…

A guide rope.

A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gun tragacanth.

Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink. [U. S.]

A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [U. S.]

Sugar-coated medicines.

To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.

A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.

A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.

A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Sir M. Hale.

A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt.

See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon.

A little dragon. Spenser.

resembling a dragon. Shak.

Like a dragon. Shak.

severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.

A variety of pigeon. Clarke. Dragoon bird (Zoöl.), the umbrella bird.