Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crocodile; a name given by Milton to the King of Egypt, in allusion to Ezek. xxix. 3.
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Examples
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It is the hungry dragon, rushing from his den in search of prey; the river-dragon ....
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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And precisely this angry aspect of the waters has been acclaimed as one of the origins of that river-dragon idea which used to be common in south Italy, before the blight of Spaniardism fell upon the land and withered up the pagan myth-making faculty.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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The river-dragon tam*d at length fubmits To let his fojourners depart, and oft lumbies his ftubbom heart, but ftill as ice vlore hardened after thaw, till in his rage
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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