A genus of animals, the Draco. They have four legs, a cylindrical tail, and membranaceous wings, radiated like the fins of a flying-fish.

A kind of winged serpent, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ages.

A fiery, shooting meteor, or imaginary serpent. Swift, swift, ye dragons of the night! That dawning may bear the ravens eye.

A fierce, violent person, male or female; as, this man or woman is a dragon.

A constellation of the northern hemisphere. In Scripture, dragon seems sometimes to signify a large marine fish or serpent, Isaiah 27:7. Where the leviathan is also mentioned; also Psalm 74:13. Sometimes it seems to signify a venomous land serpent. Psalm 91:13. The dragon shalt thou trample under foot. It is often used for the devil, who is called the old serpent. Revelation 20:2,