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- English Word Drag Definition Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
- English Word Drag Definition Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- English Word Drag Definition Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- English Word Drag Definition Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- English Word Drag Definition The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
- English Word Drag Definition A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- English Word Drag Definition The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
- English Word Dragantine Definition A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth.
- English Word Dragbar Definition Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink.
- English Word Dragbolt Definition A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
- English Word Dragees Definition Sugar-coated medicines.
- English Word Dragged Definition of Drag
- English Word Dragging Definition of Drag
- English Word Draggle Definition To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.
- English Word Draggle Definition To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass.
- English Word Draggle-tail Definition A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
- English Word Draggle-tailed Definition Untidy; sluttish; slatternly.
- English Word Draggled Definition of Draggle
- English Word Draggling Definition of Draggle
- English Word Draglink Definition A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- English Word Draglink Definition A drawbar.
- English Word Dragman Definition A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
- English Word Dragmen Definition of Dragman
- English Word Dragnet Definition A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
- English Word Dragoman Definition An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.
- English Word Dragomans Definition of Dragoman
- English Word Dragon Definition 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.
- English Word Dragon Definition A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
- English Word Dragon Definition A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
- English Word Dragon Definition A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.