Dragbar Drag"bar` noun Same as Drawbar (b) . Called also draglink , and drawlink . [ U. S.]

Dragbolt Drag"bolt` noun A coupling pin. See under Coupling . [ U. S.]

Dragées Dra`gées" noun plural [ French See 3d Dredge .] (Pharmacy) Sugar-coated medicines.

Draggle Drag"gle (drăg"g'l) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Draggled (-g'ld); present participle & verbal noun Draggling (-glĭng).] [ Freq. of drag . √73. Confer Drawl .] To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray.

With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide.

Trench.

Draggle Drag"gle intransitive verb To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass. Hudibras.

Draggle-tail Drag"gle-tail` noun A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

Draggle-tailed Drag"gle-tailed` adjective Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.

Draglink Drag"link` noun (Machinery) (a) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts. (b) A drawbar.

Dragman Drag"man noun ; plural Dragmen A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Sir M. Hale.

Dragnet Drag"net` noun [ Confer Anglo-Saxon drægnet .] A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

Dragoman Drag"o·man noun ; plural Dragomans . [ From French dragoman , or Spanish dragoman , or Italian dragomanno ; all from LGr. ..., Arabic tarjumān , from the same source as English targum . Confer Drogman , Truchman .] An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

Dragon Drag"on noun [ French dragon , Latin draco , from Greek ..., probably from ..., ..., to look (akin to Sanskrit dar... to see), and so called from its terrible eyes. Confer 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.

The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile.

Fairholt.

» 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.

Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Ps. lxxiv. 13.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Ps. xci. 13.

He laid hold on the dragon , that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.

Rev. xx. 2.

2. A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. Johnson.

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

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

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.

6. (Zoology) 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 .

7. (Zoology) A variety of carrier pigeon.

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

» Dragon is often used adjectively, or in combination, in the sense of relating to , resembling , or characteristic of , a dragon .

Dragon arum (Botany) , the name of several species of Arisæma , a genus of plants having a spathe and spadix. See Dragon root (below). -- Dragon fish (Zoology) , the dragonet. -- Dragon fly (Zoology) , 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 (Botany) , 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 C. Rotang and C. 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) (Botany) 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 .... 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 (Zoology) , 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 .... See Dragon's head (above). -- Dragon's wort (Botany) , a plant of the genus Artemisia ( A. dracunculus ). -- Dragon tree (Botany) , 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.

Dragon's blood, Dragon's head Drag"on's blood, Drag"on's head Drag"on's tail See Dragon's blood , Dragon's head , etc., under Dragon .

Dragonet Drag"on·et noun 1. A little dragon. Spenser.

2. (Zoology) A small British marine fish ( Callionymuslyra ); -- called also yellow sculpin , fox , and gowdie .

Dragonish Drag"on·ish adjective resembling a dragon. Shak.

Dragonlike Drag"on·like` (-līk`) adjective Like a dragon. Shak.

Dragonnade Drag`on·nade" (drăg`ŏn*nād") noun [ French, from 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.

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

C. Kingsley.

Dragoon Dra·goon" (drȧ*gōn") noun [ French dragon dragon, dragoon, from Latin 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.

2. A variety of pigeon. Clarke.

Dragoon bird (Zoology) , the umbrella bird.

Dragoon Dra·goon" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dragooned ; present participle & verbal noun Dragooning .] 1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.

The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing.

Price.

Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven.

Macaulay.

Dragoonade Drag`oon·ade" noun See Dragonnade .

Dragooner Dra·goon"er noun A dragoon. [ Obsolete]

Drail Drail (drāl) transitive verb & i. [ √73.] To trail; to draggle. [ Obsolete] South.

Drain Drain (drān) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Drained (drānd); present participle & verbal noun Draining .] [ Anglo-Saxon drehnigean to drain, strain; perhaps akin to English draw .] 1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.

Bacon.

But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.

Motley.

2. To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.

Sinking waters, the firm land to drain ,
Filled the capacious deep and formed the main.

Roscommon.

3. To filter.

Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.

Bacon.

Drain Drain intransitive verb 1. To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.

2. To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain .

Drain Drain noun 1. The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.

2. That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

3. plural The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains . [ Eng.] Halliwell.

Box drain , Counter drain . See under Box , Counter . -- Right of drain (Law) , an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. Kent.

Drainable Drain"a·ble adjective Capable of being drained.

Drainage Drain"age noun 1. A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

2. The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

3. (Engineering) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham.

5. (Surg.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

Drainage tube (Surg.) , a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.

Draine Draine noun [ French] (Zoology) The missel thrush.

Drainer Drain"er noun One who, or that which, drains.

Draining Drain"ing verbal noun of Drain , transitive verb (Agriculture) The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land.

Draining tile . Same as Draintile .

Drainpipe Drain"pipe` noun A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.

Draintile Drain"tile` noun A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile .

Draintrap Drain"trap` noun See 4th Trap , 5.

Drake Drake (drāk) noun [ Akin to LG. drake , Old High German antrache , anetrecho , German enterich , Icelandic andriki , Danish andrik , OSw. andrak , andrage , masc., and from Anglo-Saxon ened , fem., duck; akin to Dutch eend , German ente , Icelandic önd , Danish and , Swedish and , Lithuanian antis , Latin anas , Greek ... (for ...), and perhaps Sanskrit āti a water fowl. √207. In English the first part of the word was lost. The ending is akin to English rich . Confer Gulaund .] 1. The male of the duck kind.

2. [ Confer Dragon fly , under Dragon .] The drake fly.

The drake will mount steeple height into the air.

Walton.

Drake fly , a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.

The dark drake fly , good in August.

Walton.

Drake Drake noun [ Anglo-Saxon draca dragon, Latin draco . See Dragon .] 1. A dragon. [ Obsolete]

Beowulf resolves to kill the drake .

J. A. Harrison (Beowulf).

2. A small piece of artillery. [ Obsolete]

Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes , made them stagger.

Clarendon.

Drake Drake noun [ Confer French dravik , W. drewg , darnel, cockle, etc.] Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk , dravick , and drank . [ Prov. Eng.] Dr. Prior.

Drakestone Drake"stone noun A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes .

Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone .

De Quincey.

Dram Dram (drăm) noun [ Old French drame , French drachme , Latin drachma , drachm, drachma, from Greek drachmh` , prop., a handful, from dra`ssesqai to grasp. Confer Drachm , Drachma .] 1. A weight; in Apothecaries' weight , one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight , one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.

2. A minute quantity; a mite.

Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing.

Milton.

3. As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. Shak.

4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. Ezra ii. 69.

Fluid dram , or Fluid drachm . See under Fluid .

Dram Dram intransitive verb & t. To drink drams; to ply with drams. [ Low] Johnson. Thackeray.

Drama Dra"ma (drä"mȧ or drā"mȧ; 277) noun [ Latin drama , Greek dra^ma , from dra^n to do, act; confer Lithuanian daryti .] 1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon.

Milton.

2. A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. "The drama of war." Thackeray.

Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day;
Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Berkeley.

The drama and contrivances of God's providence.

Sharp.

3. Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

» The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy ; inferior species are tragi-comedy , melodrama , operas , burlettas , and farces .

The romantic drama , the kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage. J. A. Symonds.

Dramatic, Dramatical Dra·mat"ic, Dra·mat"ic·al adjective [ Greek ..., from ...: confer French dramatique .] Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid.

The emperor . . . performed his part with much dramatic effect.

Motley.

Dramatically Dra·mat"ic·al·ly adverb In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

Dramatis personæ Dram"a·tis per·so"næ [ Latin ] The actors in a drama or play.

Dramatist Dram"a·tist noun [ Confer French dramatiste .] The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

Dramatizable Dram"a·ti`za·ble adjective Capable of being dramatized.

Dramatization Dram`a·ti·za"tion noun Act of dramatizing.

Dramatize Dram"a·tize transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dramatized ; present participle & verbal noun Dramatizing .] [ Confer French dramatiser .] To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.

They dramatized tyranny for public execration.

Motley.

Dramaturgic Dram`a·tur"gic adjective Relating to dramaturgy.

Dramaturgist Dram"a·tur`gist noun One versed in dramaturgy. Carlyle.

Dramaturgy Dram"a·tur`gy noun [ Greek ... dramatic composition; ... drama + a root akin to English work : confer French dramaturgie .] The art of dramatic composition and representation.

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