||Dra`gées" (?), n. pl. [F. See 3d Dredge.] (Pharmacy) Sugar-coated medicines.
Drag"gle (drg"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Draggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Draggling (-glng).] [Freq. of drag. √73. Cf. Drawl.] To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray.
With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide.
Trench.
Drag"gle, v. i. To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass. Hudibras.
Drag"gle-tail` (?), n. A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
Drag"gle-tailed` (?), a. Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.
Drag"link` (?), n. (Mach.) (a) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts. (b) A drawbar.
Drag"man (?), n.; pl. Dragmen (&?;). A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Sir M. Hale.
Drag"net` (?), n. [Cf. AS. drægnet.] A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
Drag"o*man (?), n.; pl. Dragomans (#). [From F. dragoman, or Sp. dragoman, or It. dragomanno; all fr. LGr. &?;, Ar. tarjumn, from the same source as E. targum. Cf. Drogman, Truchman.] An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.
Drag"on (?), n. [F. dragon, L. draco, fr. Gr. &?;, prob. fr. &?;, &?;, to look (akin to Skr. dar&?; to see), and so called from its terrible eyes. Cf. Drake a dragon, Dragoon.] 1. (Myth.) 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.
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.