Word Meanings - DRAGONISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

resembling a dragon. Shak.

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• DRAGONET
  A small British marine fish ; -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie. (more info) 1. A little dragon. Spenser.
• DRAGON
  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
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• DRAGON'S BLOOD; DRAGON'S HEAD; DRAGON'S TAIL
  See DRAGON
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• DRAGONISH
  resembling a dragon. Shak.
• DRAGONNADE
  The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• DRAGONLIKE
  Like a dragon. Shak.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• PENDRAGON
  A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.
• FLAPDRAGON
  1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson. 2. The thing thus caught abd eaten. Johnson. Cakes and ale, and flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C.
• SNAPDRAGON
  Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon. A West Indian herb with curiously shaped blue flowers. 2. A play in which raisins are
• SEA DRAGON
  A dragonet, or sculpin. The pegasus.
• ROUGE DRAGON
  One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.