Word Meanings - EARTHDRAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.

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• SAXONY YARN
  A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.
• DRAGONET
  A small British marine fish ; -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie. (more info) 1. A little dragon. Spenser.
• EARLY
  Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
• 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
• ANGLO-CATHOLIC
  Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.
• SAXONITE
  See MOUNTAIN
• SAXONISM
  An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. T. Warton.
• DRAGON'S BLOOD; DRAGON'S HEAD; DRAGON'S TAIL
  See DRAGON
• ANGLO-SAXON
  The Teutonic people of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest. It is quite correct to call Æthelstan "King of the Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense.
• ANGLO-SAXONISM
  1. A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold. 2. The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
• SAXONIST
  One versed in the Saxon language.
• ANGLOPHOBIA
  Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. -- An"glo*phobe, n.
• 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.
• SAXON
  cf. AS. pl. Seaxe, Seaxan, fr. seax a knife, a short sword, a dagger (akin to OHG. sahs, and perhaps to L. saxum rock, stone, knives being originally made of stone); and cf. G. Sachse, pl. Sachsen. Cf. One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt
• ANGLOMANIAC
  One affected with Anglomania.
• SAXONIC
  relating to the saxons or Anglo-Saxons.
• ANGLO-SAXONDOM
  The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.
• ANGLOMANIA
  A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.
• DRAGONLIKE
  Like a dragon. Shak.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• 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.
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• 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.
• SEMI-SAXON
  Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-
• 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
• VANGLO
  Benne ; also, its seeds; -- so called in the West Indies.
• SEA MONSTER
  Any large sea animal.
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• REARLY
  Early. Beau. & Ft.
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.