DRAGON, n. L., Gr., G.
1. A kind of winged serpent, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ages.
2. A fiery, shooting meteor, or imaginary serpent.
Swift, swift, ye dragons of the night! That dawning may bear the ravens eye.
3. A fierce, violent person, male or female as, this man or woman is a dragon.
4. A constellation of the northern hemisphere. See Draco.
In Scripture, dragon seems sometimes to signify a large marine fish or serpent, Isaiah 27 . Where the leviathan is also mentioned also Psalms 74 .
Sometimes it seems to signify a venomous land serpent. Psalms 91 . The dragon shalt thou trample under foot.
It is often used for the devil, who is called the old serpent. Revelation 20:2 .
DRAGON, n. A genus of animals, the Draco. They have four legs, a cylindrical tail, and membranaceous wings, radiated like the fins of a flying-fish.
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