dragon

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We cannot give up Regnar's trousers, for we suspect the key to the whole dragon-question is in the pocket of them Seriously, Why should not those dragons have been simply what the Greek word dragon means--what the earliest romances, the Norse myths, and the superstitions of the peasantry in many parts of England to this day assert them to have been--"mighty worms," huge snakes?

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  1. noun 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. noun A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.
  3. noun Something very formidable or dangerous.
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  • Especially since the dragon was apparently King of the Dragons. —  1
  • The loss of the dragon was a serious blow, for while Kast could still wing through the air in this form, he was not a gifted flyer. —  Witch Star.htm
  • So if a dragon were about to blast out a long tongue of flame, he wouldn't transform a nearby worm into a monstrous fireproof serpent, because that serpent would find him easier prey than the dragon. —  Question Quest
  • "I don't think the dragon is here," Karia said, landing. —  Cube Route
  • Cube cried as the dragon was about to crash into a tree. —  Cube Route
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dracō, dracōn-, large serpent, from Greek drakōn; see derk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English dragon, dragun, dragoun, from Old French dragon, a dragon, a standard, = Provencal Spanish dragon = Portuguese dragão = It dragone (see the Teutonic forms under drake), from Latin draco(n-), a dragon, Middle Latin also a standard so called, from Greek δράκων, a serpent, also a sea-fish, a serpent-shaped bracelet or necklace, a bandage for the ankle, etc., literally the seeing one, 2d aor participle (cf. 2d aorist inf.δρακεῑν) of δέρκεσθαι, see, = Sanskrit darç, see. Cf. Dorcas. The older English form is drake, q. v.; a later form with another sense is dragoon, q. v.
 

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