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A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
A Komodo dragon.
(astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
(pejorative) An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
(with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
(military, historical) 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.
A variety of carrier pigeon.

But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon, and rescue a princess, the dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.
These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each dragon, I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.
My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior.
She’s a bit of a dragon.
Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.

Monikko

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