Dictionary: DRAG'O-NET – DRAIN'AGE

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DRAG'O-NET, n.

  1. A little dragon. – Spenser.
  2. The popular name of the species of a genus of fishes called Linnæus Callionymus.

DRAG'ON-FISH, n.

Said to be the occasional popular name of a fish, the Trachinus Draco of Linnæus, more commonly called Sting-Bull, and Common Weever.

DRAG'ON-FLY, n.

The popular name of a genus of insects called Libellula by Linnæus.

DRAG'ON-ISH, a.

In the form of a dragon; dragonlike. – Shak.

DRAG'ON-LIKE, a.

Like a dragon; fiery; furious. – Shak.

DRAG'ONS, n.

The popular name of certain plants which are species of the Linnæan genus Dracontium.

DRAG'ON'S-BLOOD, n. [Sax. dracan-blod.]

The vague popular name of the inspissated juice of various plants, as Calamus Draco, Dracæna Draco, Pterocarpus Draco, &c. Obtained from such various sources, it has various properties, and is of diverse composition.

DRAG'ON'S-HEAD, n.

A proposed popular name of certain plants of the genus Dracocephalum, of which term it is a translation. Dragon's Head and Tail, in astronomy, are the nodes of the planets, or the two points in which the orbits of the planets intersect the ecliptic. – Encyc.

DRAG'ON-SHELL, n.

Said to be the popular name of a species of Patella or Limpet.

DRAG'ON'S-WA-TER, n.

Said to be a popular name of a plant belonging to the genus Calla.

DRAG'ON'S-WORT, n.

Said to be a popular name of a plant belonging to the genus Artemisia.

DRAG'ON-TREE, n.

Said to be the popular name of some plant belonging to the order of Palms.

DRA-GOON', n. [Fr. dragon; Sp. id.; Port. dragam, a dragon and dragoon; It. dragone; G. dragoner; D. dragoner; Dan. dragon; Sw. id.; L. draconarius, an ensign bearer, from draco, dragon; an appellation given to horsemen, perhaps for their rapidity or fierceness.]

A soldier or musketeer who serves on horseback or on foot, as occasion may require. Their arms are a sword, a musket and a bayonet. – Encyc.

DRA-GOON', v.t.

  1. To persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. – Johnson.
  2. To enslave or reduce to subjection by soldiers.
  3. To harass; to persecute; to compel to submit by violent measures; to force. [This is the more usual sense.] The colonies may be influenced to any thing, but they can be dragooned to nothing. – Price.

DRA-GOON-ADE', n.

The abandoning of a place to the rage of soldiers. Burnet.

DRA-GOON'ED, pp.

Abandoned to the violence of soldiers; persecuted; harassed.

DRA-GOON'ING, ppr.

Abandoning to the rage of soldiers; persecuting; harassing; vexing.

DRAIL, v.i.

To draggle. [Not in use.] – South.

DRAIL, v.t.

To trail. [Not in use.] – More.

DRAIN, n.

A channel through which water or other liquid flows off; particularly, a trench or ditch to convey water from wet land; a water-course; a sewer; a sink.

DRAIN, v.i.

  1. To flow off gradually; as, let the water of low ground drain off.
  2. To be emptied of liquor, by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain; let the cloth hang and drain.

DRAIN, v.t. [Sax. drehnigean, to drain, to strain. This may be a derivative from the root of draw. Qu. Sax. drygan, to dry.]

  1. To filter; to cause to pass through some porous substance. Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. – Bacon.
  2. To empty or clear of liquor, by causing the liquor to drop or run off slowly; as, to drain a vessel or its contents.
  3. To make dry; to exhaust of water or other liquor, by causing it to flow off in channels, or through porous substances; as, to drain land; to drain a swamp or marsh.
  4. To empty; to exhaust; to draw off gradually; as, a foreign war drains a country of a specie.

DRAIN'A-BLE, a.

Capable of being drained. – Sherwood.

DRAIN'AGE, n.

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

DRAIN'AGE, n.

A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid.