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n. 1. the resistance caused by a gas to the motion of a solid body moving through it. Studied in aerodynamics. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bedraggled p. pr. & vb. n. Bedraggling ] To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. of Celtic origin: cf. Bordrage. ] A raid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Perh. from OE. bord, for border + raging. Cf. Bodrage. ] An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 3d Dredge. ] A confection; a comfit; a drug. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dragged p. pr. & vb. n. Dragging ] [ OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. &unr_; See Draw. ] 1. To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A needless Alexandrine ends the song
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then while I dragged my brains for such a song. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have dragged a lingering life. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship.

Syn. -- See Draw. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

Long, open panegyric drags at best. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. [ 1913 Webster ]

A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her. Russell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To fish with a dragnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Drag, v. t., and cf. Dray a cart, and 1st Dredge. ] 1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [ Collog. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. [ 1913 Webster ]

My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. J. D. Forbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. “Had a drag in his walk.” Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drag sail (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also drift sail, drag sheet, drag anchor, sea anchor, floating anchor, etc. --
Drag twist (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dracanth. ] A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. sugar-coated medication.
Syn. -- dragées. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. silver-coated candy bead for decorating cakes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. sugar-coated nut or fruit piece. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ F. See 3d Dredge. ] (Pharmacy) Sugar-coated medicines. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. painfully or tediously slow and boring; as, the dragging minutes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Draggled p. pr. & vb. n. Draggling ] [ Freq. of drag. √73. Cf. Drawl. ] To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud.
Syn. -- bedraggled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mach.) (a) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts. (b) A drawbar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dragmen A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. drægnet. ] A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dragomans [ From F. dragoman, or Sp. dragoman, or It. dragomanno; all fr. LGr. &unr_;, Ar. tarjumān, from the same source as E. targum. Cf. Drogman, Truchman. ] An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. dragon, L. draco, fr. Gr. dra`kwn, prob. fr. de`rkesqai, dra`kein, to look (akin to Skr. darç to see), and so called from its terrible eyes. Cf. Drake a dragon, Dragoon. ] 1. (Myth.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In Scripture the term dragon refers to any great monster, whether of the land or sea, usually to some kind of serpent or reptile, sometimes to land serpents of a powerful and deadly kind. It is also applied metaphorically to Satan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Ps. lxxiv. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Ps. xci. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. Rev. xx. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Astron.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mil. Antiq.) 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. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Zool.) A variety of carrier pigeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Her.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Dragon is often used adjectively, or in combination, in the sense of relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a dragon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dragon arum (Bot.), the name of several species of Arisæma, a genus of plants having a spathe and spadix. See Dragon root(below). --
Dragon fish (Zool.), the dragonet. --
Dragon fly (Zool.), any insect of the family Libellulidæ. They have finely formed, large and strongly reticulated wings, a large head with enormous eyes, and a long body; -- called also mosquito hawks. Their larvæ are aquatic and insectivorous. --
Dragon root (Bot.), an American aroid plant (Arisæma Dracontium); green dragon. --
Dragon's blood, a resinous substance obtained from the fruit of several species of Calamus, esp. from Calamus Rotang and Calamus Draco, growing in the East Indies. A substance known as dragon's blood is obtained by exudation from Dracæna Draco; also from Pterocarpus Draco, a tree of the West Indies and South America. The color is red, or a dark brownish red, and it is used chiefly for coloring varnishes, marbles, etc. Called also Cinnabar Græcorum. --
Dragon's head. (a) (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Dracocephalum. They are perennial herbs closely allied to the common catnip. (b) (Astron.) The ascending node of a planet, indicated, chiefly in almanacs, by the symbol &unr_;. The deviation from the ecliptic made by a planet in passing from one node to the other seems, according to the fancy of some, to make a figure like that of a dragon, whose belly is where there is the greatest latitude; the intersections representing the head and tail; -- from which resemblance the denomination arises. Encyc. Brit. --
Dragon shell (Zool.), a species of limpet. --
Dragon's skin, fossil stems whose leaf scars somewhat resemble the scales of reptiles; -- a name used by miners and quarrymen. Stormonth. --
Dragon's tail (Astron.), the descending node of a planet, indicated by the symbol &unr_;. See Dragon's head (above). --
Dragon's wort (Bot.), a plant of the genus Artemisia (Artemisia dracunculus). --
Dragon tree (Bot.), a West African liliaceous tree (Dracæna Draco), yielding one of the resins called dragon's blood. See Dracæna. --
Dragon water, a medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of the 17th century. “Dragon water may do good upon him.” Randolph (1640). --
Flying dragon, a large meteoric fireball; a bolide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A little dragon. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. resembling a dragon. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a dragon. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them. ] The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. [ 1913 Webster ]

He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.

{ }. See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. dragon dragon, dragoon, fr. L. draco dragon, also, a cohort's standard (with a dragon on it). The name was given from the sense standard. See Dragon. ] 1. ((Mil.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A variety of pigeon. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dragoon bird (Zool.), the umbrella bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dragooned p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning. ] 1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute. [ 1913 Webster ]

The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing. Price. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Dragonnade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dragoon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. (Aëronautics) A guide rope. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing thus caught and eaten. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. hydragogus conveying off water, Gr. &unr_;; "y`dwr water + &unr_; to lead: cf. F. hydragogue.] (Med.) Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy. -- n. A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic. [1913 Webster]

adj. marked by extreme violence; -- of fights; also used metaphorically of fierce contests; as, a knock-down-and-drag-out fight; a knockdown-dragout competition for the browser market.
Syn. -- ferocious, fierce, knockdown-dragout, tearing. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ R. ] A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., mandragoras the mandrake. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. quadragenarius, fr. qyadrageni forty each. ] Consisting of forty; forty years old. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. quadragena, fr. L. quadrageni forty each, akin to quadraginta forty. ] (R. C. Ch.) An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. quadragesimus the fortieth, fr. quadraginta forty; akin to quattuor four. See Four. ] (Eccl.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. quadragésimal. ] Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., literally, red dragon. ] (Her.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms. [ 1913 Webster ]