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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.

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

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

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

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.

A dragon fly.

A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

he vanquished; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.

indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

Snapdragon.

vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. "Dire chimeras and enchanted isles." Milton.

ilion. Cinnabar Græcorum (. Etym: [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood. -- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. -- Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.…

ng needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings. (b) (Zoöl.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings.

Deadly. [Obs.] "Deathlike dragons." Shak.