Draco
['dreikəu]
Definition
(noun.) a reptile genus known as flying dragons or flying lizards.
(noun.) a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus.
(noun.) Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
Typist: Oliver--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.
(n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.
(n.) A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6.
Editor: Rochelle
Definition
n. a northern constellation: a dragon-lizard.
Typed by Hester
Examples
- Like the laws of Draco, these laws may be said to be all written in blood. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You have a soft place in your heart yourself, you know--you're not a Draco, a Jeffreys, that sort of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Adrian