Bible Dictionary
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DRAGON, noun [Latin , Gr., G.]
1. A kind of winged serpent, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ages.
2. A fiery, shooting meteor, or imaginary serpent.
Swift, swift, ye dragons of the night! That dawning may bear the ravens eye.
3. A fierce, violent person, male or female; as, this man or woman is a dragon
4. A constellation of the northern hemisphere. [See Draco.]
In Scripture, dragon seems sometimes to signify a large marine fish or serpent, Isaiah 27:1. Where the leviathan is also mentioned; also Psalms 74:13.
Sometimes it seems to signify a venomous land serpent. Psalms 91:13. The dragon shalt thou trample under foot.
It is often used for the devil, who is called the old serpent. Revelation 20:2.
DRAGON, noun A genus of animals, the Draco. They have four legs, a cylindrical tail, and membranaceous wings, radiated like the fins of a flying-fish.