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drag	1. To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labour, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. "Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust." (Denham) "The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." (Tennyson) "A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." (Pope) 2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag. "Then while I dragged my brains for such a song." (Tennyson) 3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. "Have dragged a lingering life." (Dryden) To drag an anchor, to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship. Synonym: See Draw. Origin: OE. Draggen; akin to Sw. Dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. Dragg grapnel, fr. Draga to draw, the same word as E. Draw. See Draw. 1. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold. 2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. "The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun." (Byron) "Long, open panegyric drags at best." (Gay) 3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. "A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her." (Russell) 4. To fish with a dragnet. 1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. 2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. 3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. 4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. 5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. 6. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below). Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. "My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag." (J. D. Forbes) 7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." 8. The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. 9. A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. 10. <engineering> The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag. Drag sail, a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes. See: Drag, and cf. Dray a cart, and 1st Dredge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
dragee	A sugar-coated pill or capsule. Origin: Fr. (05 Mar 2000)
dragees	<pharmacology> Sugar-coated medicines. Origin: F. See Dredge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Dragendorff reagent	A reagent used in the detection of alkaloids. (05 Mar 2000)
Dragendorff's test	A qualitative test for bile; a play of colours is produced by adding a drop of nitric acid to white filter paper or unglazed porcelain, moistened with a fluid containing bile pigments. The test is essentially the same as Gmelin's test for bile in urine. (05 Mar 2000)
Dragendorff, Georg	<person> German physician and pharmaceutical chemist, 1836-1898. See: Dragendorff's test. (05 Mar 2000)
Drager respirometer	An inferential meter to measure tidal and minute volume from the number of revolutions of a vane rotated by the gas stream as the latter passes through two lightweight lozenge-shaped meshing rotors. (05 Mar 2000)
Drager, Glenn	<person> U.S. Neurologist, *1917. See: Shy-Drager syndrome. (05 Mar 2000)
Drager, Heinrich	<person> German manufacturer of industrial and diving respiratory apparatus, *1898. See: Drager respirometer. (05 Mar 2000)
dragman	A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
dragnet	A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing. Origin: Cf. AS. Draegnet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
dragoman	Origin: From F. Dragoman, or Sp. Dragoman, or It. Dragomanno; all fr. LGr, Ar. Tarjuman, from the same source as E. Targum. Cf. Drogman, Truchman. An interpreter; so called in the Levant and other parts of the East. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
dragon	1. 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) 2. A fierce, violent person, especially. A woman. 3. <astronomy> A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco. 4. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent. 5. A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. 6. <zoology> A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard. 7. <zoology> A variety of carrier pigeon. 8. A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms. Dragon is often used adjectively, or in combination, in the sense of relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a dragon. <botany> Dragon arum, a West African liliaceous tree (Dracaena Draco), yielding one of the resins called dragon's blood. See Dracaena. Dragon water, a medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of the 17th century. "Dragon water may do good upon him." . Flying dragon, a large meteoric fireball; a bolide. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
dragon's blood	Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
dragon's tail	See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc, under Dragon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)