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ˈsea-ˌdragon
[dragon1.]
1. Various fishes, as the weever; the bullhead; a dragonet (Callionymus); a flying sea-horse, Pegasus draco; also a kind of pipe-fish (see quot. 1898).
1551Turner Herbal i. A v b, Wormwood..is good against..the bytinge of a shrewe, and the sea dragon. 1601Holland Pliny xxxii. v. II. 434 Since I haue named the sea-dragon [orig. draco marinus], this would be noted, That himselfe outwardly applied, is a remedie [etc.]. 1674T. P., etc. Eng. & Fr. Cook 412 Potage of Vives or Sea-dragons. Ibid., Take out your Sea-Dragons, and put them with Ragoust [etc.]. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 272 The Cottus with the second back fin white. The Sea-dragon. 1835J. F. South in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIII. 165/1 Pegasus Draco, Lin.; Sea Dragon. 1898Morris Austral Engl., Sea-Dragon, any Australian fish of any one of the three species of the genus Phyllopteryx, family Syngnathidæ.
2. A mythical marine monster resembling a dragon.
1749Gentl. Mag. XIX. 506 It [a creature resembling a winged alligator, said to have been lately captured in a mackerel-net] is said..to have been described by naturalists under the name of the Sea-Dragon. 1884Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 2/1 When a junk is fully laden and on the eve of sailing, the crew commend themselves to the sea-dragon in a frightfully noisy religious service.
¶3. Misused to render F. draconcule, guinea-worm.
1775Phil. Trans. LXV. 211 Those..enemies to man, the tape, the hair worm, and the sea dragon.
4. A popular name for any large marine saurian.
1896H. Woodward Guide Fossil Reptiles Brit. Mus. 52 Most of the ‘Sea-Dragons’..were obtained from the Lias of Street,..Lyme Regis [etc.]. |