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 Psalm 74.Sometimes it seems to signify a venomous land serpent. Psalm 91. The dragon shalt thou trample under foot.It is often used for the devil, who is called the old serpent. Revelations 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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