(n.) 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.
(n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
(n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
(n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A variety of carrier pigeon.
(n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(2) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
(4) And it will almost certainly continue arriving in dribs and drabs, based on the Sea Dragon's observations.
(5) It means that if I get a little bored with Daenerys refusing to bring her dragons and her army over to the main continent, I just need to wait a few minutes until Bran's adventures take over.
(6) Maybe you understand the twinkling of the stars, the falling of objects to earth or what it takes to be an astronaut, or you’ve battled a dragon or discovered just how stinky the stinky past could be in a horrible history.
(7) Fifa 15 is on the way; Dragon Age Inquisition and Hardline too.
(8) When Rolls-Royce launched a $1.2m Year of the Dragon edition of its Phantom, with the creature hand-painted on its wheelbase and hand-stitched on to cushions, all eight sold in two months.
(9) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a much longer process.
(10) YouTube is full of inventive fan videos and you can purchase anything from handcrafted dragons' eggs to a replica Iron Throne .
(12) Drugs policy is the last legislative wilderness where "here be dragons", a hangover from days when abortion and homosexuality were illegal and divorce expensive.
(13) Less than 10 minutes later, the rocket and its cargo – a Dragon capsule with 544 kg of supplies for the station crew – reached orbit.
(14) 'He said he was coming late, so I went upstairs to a lounge bar called the Dragon Fly which is a few doors away.
(15) Astrologers posit that babies born under each sign are bestowed with unique personality traits – rat-year babies are cautious, dragon babies resilient, dog babies intelligent, and sheep babies are considered meek.
(16) The Dragon, added Mortimer, was a 'terrific school' where he learnt more than he ever did afterwards.
(17) And now there is a national development plan to slay the three-headed dragon of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
(18) Jen (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) In Ang Lee's gravity-defying martial arts romp, women take most of the major roles, virtuous or villainous.
(19) Previously criticised for their “exclusionary” developments that ignore “the real Woodstock”, the Dragons ignored my repeated attempts to seek their views on the suburb’s gentrification and their role in it.
(20) This survey of China's ethereal paintings is fleshed out by The Chinese Art Book, published by Phaidon on 14 October, a gorgeously laid out overview in which classics like Chen Rong's Nine Dragons, painted in 1244, - the original is in the V&A show - are juxtaposed with contemporary artists from heroic Ai Weiwei to the fireworks of Cai Guo-Qiang.
Musket
Definition:
(n.) The male of the sparrow hawk.
(n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) For Didier Deschamps, the big call for this last-16 challenge was whether to pick Antoine Griezmann or Olivier Giroud to join Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena as the third attacking musketeer in France’s system.
(2) "Everybody's dressed as one of the Three Musketeers on acid.
(3) He said one word: D’Artagnan.” The noble musketeer fighting against the forces of evil is a positive portrayal.
(4) Kate Harwood, who has overseen hits including Cranford, Luther, Five Daughters and The Musketeers during her 24 years at the BBC , will join Fremantle as managing director of Euston Films in the summer.
(5) The second episode of BBC1's 10-part drama The Musketeers, which stars Peter Capaldi, suffered an audience dip of more than 1 million viewers, but remained the top-rating show in the 9pm hour against ITV's Mr Selfridge.
(6) Among them was 37-year-old Yusuf Idris, who bought a $40 (£26) home-made musket and joined his friends in a civilian vigilante effort after a savage assault in 2013 turned Baga into Nigeria’s new ground zero against Boko Haram .
(7) It was up against the last in the second series of ITV's Mr Selfridge, watched by 4.9 million viewers, a 21.5% share, once again ahead of its BBC1 drama rival, The Musketeers, which had 4.2 million viewers (18.6%) for its penultimate outing.
(8) Christie’s said interest in Picasso’s late period musketeer portraits has grown dramatically in recent years.
(9) When Lord North, prime minister at the time of the American revolution, received the news that British forces had lost the war, and with it the American colonies, he was reported to have been physically struck by the magnitude of the news, as if hit by a musket ball.
(10) Dedicated to the 1960s cinematographic heyday of Almería, the nearby provincial capital, it is plastered with location photos from Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago and The Three Musketeers, which were all filmed round here.
(11) In the battle of the 9pm dramas, it was Mr Selfridge that took the ratings honours, the ITV department store series was watched by 4.9 million viewers (21.5%) ahead of BBC1's The Musketeers, with 4.7 million viewers (20.4%).
(12) Despite the audience dip Musketeers was once again easily ahead of Mr Selfridge.
(13) Two centuries ago the round shot had screamed about the streets and the crackle of muskets resounded in its encircling country lanes.
(14) The mix of fierce individualism with the spirit of the three musketeers ("All for one and one for all") has kept American society internally dynamic and externally on top of its game.
(15) "Hangs him plain as day in the corner of his living room, next to the musket he was shot with."
(16) Which may or may not be a good idea depending on your view of that mix-and-match defence testing its weak points against Barcelona’s otherworldly attacking trio, the football equivalent of riding out to face the three musketeers with a breadstick in each hand.
(17) Yet Redwood’s remark that the national argument resembled “the English civil war without muskets” was more than a quip.
(18) Later, due to its popularity, they broadened the series out to talk about everything from slow-motion musket firing to the chemical properties of caffeine.
(19) For the American people can no more meet the demands of today's world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias.
(20) She was memorably described as one of the "three musketeers" of independent film finance in the UK, along with two other contenders for the MediaGuardian 100 – Christine Langan , creative director of BBC Films, and Tanya Seghatchian , head of the UK Film Council's lottery supported development fund.