Dragon
['dræg(ə)n] or ['dræɡən]
Definition
(noun.) any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body.
(noun.) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings.
(noun.) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman.
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Definition
(n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
(n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
(n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
(n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
(n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
(n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.
(n.) A variety of carrier pigeon.
(n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a dragon, denotes that you allow yourself to be governed by your passions, and that you are likely to place yourself in the power of your enemies through those outbursts of sardonic tendencies. You should be warned by this dream to cultivate self-control. See Devil.
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Examples
- There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Left alone, she threw herself back on her ottoman, and said, 'I didn't know the lovely woman was such a Dragon! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Whet the bright steel, Sons of the White Dragon! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The townspeople who, in their passing and repassing, saw her there, regarded her as the Bank Dragon keeping watch over the treasures of the mine. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Five days after the death of Raffles, Mr. Bambridge was standing at his leisure under the large archway leading into the yard of the Green Dragon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was a billiard-room at the Green Dragon, which some anxious mothers and wives regarded as the chief temptation in Middlemarch. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In other respects she was no woman, but a dragon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- An insect like a dragon fly is shown. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What a dragon! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- That whole evening was Madame on duty beside these jeunes gens--attentive to them as a mother, but strict with them as a dragon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The dragon's teeth are already sown amongst Mr. Yorke's young olive-branches; discord will one day be the harvest. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Hannah is a model servant, and guards pretty Meg like a dragon. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Do not betray her, he said, looking at me as if I were indeed a dragon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Dixon will keep the door like a dragon--won't you, Dixon--while he is here? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- On the road it caused amazement and consternation, and won the name of Captain Trevethick’s dragon. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They must have had a grotesque resemblance to heraldic dragons, and they played the part of bat-like birds in the Mesozoic jungles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There are two bronze skeletons bearing scrolls, and two great dragons uphold the sarcophagus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She had once said that she would like him to stay; and stay he would, whatever fire-breathing dragons might hiss around her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No hero of mythology or fable ever dared such dragons to rescue some captive goddess as did this dauntless champion of civilization. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Talk to me of fiery dragons! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Nature there is totally confounded, and nothing mentioned but winged horses, fiery dragons, and monstrous giants. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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