Word Meanings - FIREDRAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl. 2. A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket. 3. A worker at a furnace or fire. B. Jonson.

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• DRAGONET
  A small British marine fish ; -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie. (more info) 1. A little dragon. Spenser.
• 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
• DRAGON'S BLOOD; DRAGON'S HEAD; DRAGON'S TAIL
  See DRAGON
• ROCKET
  A cruciferous plant sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. Damewort. Rocket larkspur. See below. Dyer's Rocket. See Dyer's broom, under Broom. -- Rocket larkspur , an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes . -- Sea rocket , either
• FIERY
  1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. And fiery billows roll below. I. Watts. 2. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails Shak. The fiery
• ROCKETER
  A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
• 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.
• FURNACE
  1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note:
• DRAGONLIKE
  Like a dragon. Shak.
• IGNIS FATUUS
  1. A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp,
• WORKER
  One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White. (more info) 1. One who, or that
• 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.
• WATER ROCKET
  A cruciferous plant with small yellow flowers. 2. A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.
• CROCKET
  An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc. 2. A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler. The antlers and the crockets. W. Black.
• 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.
• 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
• PERNOT FURNACE
  A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.
• CROCKETED
  Ornamented with crockets.
• SKYROCKET
  A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.
• ASH-FURNACE; ASH-OVEN
  A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.
• SEA DRAGON
  A dragonet, or sculpin. The pegasus.
• SUBWORKER
  A subordinate worker or helper. South.
• COWORKER
  One who works with another; a co
• CONGREVE ROCKET
  See ROCKET
• ROUGE DRAGON
  One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.
• SEA ROCKET
  See ROCKET