1. A mythical monster traditionally represented as a gigantic reptile having a lion's claws, the tail of a serpent, wings, and a scaly skin.
2. A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.
3. something very formidable or dangerous.
4. any of various lizards, such as the Komodo dragon or the flying lizard.
5. archaic A large snake or serpent.

1. A legendary, serpentine or reptilian creature.
2. an animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
3. the constellation draco.
4. an unpleasant woman; a harridan.
5. the (historical) chinese empire or the people's republic of china.
6. something very formidable or dangerous.

1. 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.
2. A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
3. 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. 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.
6. 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. A variety of carrier pigeon.
8. A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

1. A fabulous animal common to the conceptions of many primitive races and times, or, as in the bible an indefinite creature of great size or fierceness.
2. in zoöl.: A lizard of the genus draco, specifically called the flying-dragon.
3. any one of the monitor-lizards.
4. in ornithology, a kind of carrier-pigeon. also called dragoon.
5. A fierce, violent person, male or female; now, more generally (from the part of guardian often played by the dragon in mythology), a spiteful, watchful woman; a duenna.
6. [capitalized] an ancient northern constellation, draco.
7. A short firearm used by dragoons in the seventeenth century, described as having a barrel 16 inches long, with a large bore.
8. an old kind of standard or military ensign, so called because it was decorated with a dragon painted or embroidered upon it, or because it consisted (like the anglo-saxon standard at Hastings, as seen in the Bayeux tapestry) of a figure of a dragon carried upon a staff.
9. A name given to various araceous plants, as in england to arum maculatum; the brown dragon, Arisœma triphyllum; the green dragon, Dracunculus vulgaris, and in the united states Arisœma Dracontium; the female or water dragon, calla palustris.
10. in scotland, a paper kite.
11. see the extract.
12. pertaining to or resembling dragons; performed by dragons; fierce; formidable.
13. the larva of a european notodontid moth, Hybocampa millhauseri, having remarkably angular outlines and conspicuous corners and humps, so that it resembles an oak-leaf curled and eaten by a tortricid larva.
14. the hellgrammite fly, Corydalus cornutus.

1. a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between ursa major and cepheus
2. a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
3. any of several small tropical asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
4. a creature of teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
5. proceed for an extended period of time
6. last unnecessarily long