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A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably

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A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt. Note: In Scripture the term dragon refers to any great monster, whether of the land or sea, usually to some kind of serpent or reptile, sometimes to land serpents of a powerful and deadly kind. It is also applied metaphorically to Satan. Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Ps. lxxiv. 13. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Ps. xci. 13. He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. Rev. xx. 2. 2. A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. Johnson.

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• WINGY
  1. Having wings; rapid. With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind. Addison.
• SERPENTARIUS
  A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• SERPENTINOUS
  Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• WINGFISH
  A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• SCULPTURESQUE
  After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• LIZARD
  Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria. Note: Most lizards have an elongated body, with four legs, and a long tail; but there
• APPEAR
  appear + parto come forth, to be visible; prob. from the same root as 1. To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9. 2. To come before the public; as, a great
• ENORMOUSLY
  In an enormous degree.
• SERPENTARIA
  The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• TWINGE
  OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. duhen, and probably
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• ZWINGLIAN
  Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli , the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial