1. dragon(n = noun.person) firedrake - a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings;
is a kind of mythical creature, mythical monster
has particulars: wivern, wyvern
2. dragon(n = noun.person) tartar - a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman;
is a kind of disagreeable woman, unpleasant woman
3. dragon(n = noun.object) draco - a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus;
is a kind of constellation
4. dragon(n = noun.animal) flying dragon, flying lizard - any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body;
is a kind of agamid, agamid lizard
is a member of draco, genus draco
dragon, n.
1 a mythical monster like a reptile, usu. with wings and claws and able to breathe out fire.
2 a fierce person, esp. a woman.
3 (in full flying dragon) a lizard, Draco volans, with a long tail and membranous winglike structures. Also called flying lizard.
Idiom:
dragon's blood a red gum that exudes from the fruit of some palms and the dragon-tree. dragon's teeth Mil. colloq. obstacles resembling teeth pointed upwards, used esp. against tanks. dragon-tree a tree, Dracaena draco, native to the Canary Isles.
Etymology:
ME f. OF f. L draco -onis f. Gk drakon serpent
N unconformity, nonconformity, unconformity, disconformity, unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, exception, peculiarity, infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage, teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity, freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant, rouser, snorter, individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism, aberration, irregularity, variety, singularity, exemption, salvo, nonconformist, nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish, mongrel, random breed, half-caste, half-blood, half-breed, metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto, tertium quid, hermaphrodite, phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur, griffin, griffon, centaur, saggittary, kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent, mermaid, merman, merfolk, unicorn, Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, teratology, fish out of water, neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring, one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand, outcast, outlaw, off the beaten track, oasis, uncomformable, exceptional, abnormal, abnormous, anomalous, anomalistic, out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element, irregular, arbitrary, teratogenic, lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton, peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious, out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run, beyond the pale of, out of the pale of, misplaced, funny, unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon, rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, strange, monstrous, wonderful, unexpected, unaccountable, outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy, queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis, unfashionable, fantastic, grotesque, bizarre, outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural, denaturalized, heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid, androgynous, androgynal, asymmetric, adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous, qualified, singular, unique, one-of-a-kind, newfangled, novel, non-classical, original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar, undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unconformably, except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone, however, yet, but, once in a blue moon, once in a million years, Int, what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?, Sacre bleu, never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like, I could hardly believe it, I saw it, but I didn't believe it.
N violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity, boisterousness, effervescence, ebullition, turbulence, bluster, uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire, severity, ferocity, rage, fury, exacerbation, exasperation, malignity, fit, paroxysm, orgasm, climax, aphrodisia, force, brute force, outrage, coup de main, strain, shock, shog, spasm, convulsion, throe, hysterics, passion, outbreak, outburst, debacle, burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent, turmoil, ferment, storm, tempest, rough weather, squall, earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm, berserk, berserker, fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast, fire eater, violent, vehement, warm, acute, sharp, rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild, brusque, abrupt, waspish, impetuous, rampant, turbulent, disorderly, blustering, raging, troublous, riotous, tumultuary, tumultuous, obstreperous, uproarious, extravagant, unmitigated, ravening, inextinguishable, tameless, frenzied, desperate, infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics, fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient, savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger, excited, unquelled, unquenched, unextinguished, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly, headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable, uncontrollable, incontrollable, insuppressible, irrepressible, orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic, spasmodic, convulsive, explosive, detonating, volcanic, meteoric, stormy, violently, amain, by storm, by force, by main force, with might and main, tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, at one fell swoop, with a high hand, through thick and thin, in desperation, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, headlong, head foremost, furor arma ministrat, blown with restless violence round about the pende.
N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.
bel and the dragon, dragon arum, dragon lizard, dragon tree, false dragon head, flying dragon, grand dragon, green dragon, komodo dragon, rouge dragon, sea dragon, water dragon
1. blood(n = noun.body) - the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"
is a kind of bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance
has parts: blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle
has particulars: arterial blood, blood group, blood type, gore, lifeblood, blood stream, bloodstream, blood clot, grume, cord blood, menorrhea, menstrual blood, menstrual flow, venous blood, whole blood
Derived forms verb blood1, adjective bloody1
2. blood(n = noun.attribute) - temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood"
is a kind of disposition, temperament
3. blood(n = noun.person) profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue - a dissolute man in fashionable society;
is a kind of debauchee, libertine, rounder
4. blood(n = noun.group) ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
is a kind of family tree, genealogy
has particulars: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, side
5. blood(n = noun.group) - people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization"
is a kind of people
blood(v = verb.contact) - smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill;
is one way to daub, smear
Derived form noun blood1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial. [1913 Webster]
" The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See
2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. [1913 Webster]
"To share the blood of Saxon royalty." [1913 Webster]
"A friend of our own blood." [1913 Webster]
3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. [1913 Webster]
"Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam." [1913 Webster]
"I am a gentleman of blood and breeding." [1913 Webster]
4. Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. [1913 Webster]
" In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood." [1913 Webster]
5. The fleshy nature of man. [1913 Webster]
"Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood." [1913 Webster]
6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. [1913 Webster]
"So wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
Till blood for blood atones." [1913 Webster]
7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [1913 Webster]
"He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries." [1913 Webster]
8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. [1913 Webster]
" Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up." [1913 Webster]
"When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth." [1913 Webster]
9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. [1913 Webster]
"Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?" [1913 Webster]
"It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood." [1913 Webster]
10. The juice of anything, especially if red. [1913 Webster]
" Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won." [1913 Webster]
"He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes." [1913 Webster]
1. To bleed. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
2. To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [1913 Webster]
"Reach out their spears afar,
And blood their points." [1913 Webster]
3. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. [1913 Webster]
"It was most important too that his troops should be blooded." [1913 Webster]
4. To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [1913 Webster]
"The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another." [1913 Webster]
blood, n. & v.
--n.
1 a liquid, usually red and circulating in the arteries and veins of vertebrates, that carries oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
2 a corresponding fluid in invertebrates.
3 bloodshed, esp. killing.
4 passion, temperament.
5 race, descent, parentage (of the same blood).
6 a relationship; relations (own flesh and blood; blood is thicker than water).
7 a dandy; a man of fashion.
--v.tr.
1 give (a hound) a first taste of blood.
2 initiate (a person) by experience.
Idiom:
bad blood ill feeling. blood-and-thunder (attrib.) colloq. sensational, melodramatic. blood bank a place where supplies of blood or plasma for transfusion are stored. blood bath a massacre. blood-brother a brother by birth or by the ceremonial mingling of blood. blood count
1 the counting of the number of corpuscles in a specific amount of blood.
2 the number itself. blood-curdling horrifying. blood donor one who gives blood for transfusion. blood feud a feud between families involving killing or injury. blood group any one of the various types of human blood determining compatibility in transfusion. blood-heat the normal body temperature of a healthy human being, about 37 °C or 98.4 °F. blood horse a thoroughbred. one's blood is up one is in a fighting mood.
blood-letting
1 the surgical removal of some of a patient's blood.
2 joc. bloodshed. blood-lust the desire for shedding blood.
blood-money
1 money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed.
2 money paid to a hired murderer.
3 money paid for information about a murder or murderer. blood orange an orange with red or red-streaked pulp. blood-poisoning a diseased state caused by the presence of micro-organisms in the blood. blood pressure the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system, often measured for diagnosis since it is closely related to the force and rate of the heartbeat and the diameter and elasticity of the arterial walls. blood-red red as blood. blood relation (or relative) a relative by blood, not by marriage. blood royal the royal family. blood serum see SERUM. blood sport sport involving the wounding or killing of animals, esp. hunting. blood sugar the amount of glucose in the blood. blood test a scientific examination of blood, esp. for diagnosis. blood transfusion the injection of a volume of blood, previously taken from a healthy person, into a patient. blood-vessel a vein, artery, or capillary carrying blood. blood-wort any of various plants having red roots or leaves, esp. the red-veined dock.
first blood
1 the first shedding of blood, esp. in boxing.
2 the first point gained in a contest etc. in one's blood inherent in one's character. make one's blood boil infuriate one. make one's blood run cold horrify one. new (or fresh) blood new members admitted to a group, esp. as an invigorating force. of the blood royal. out for a person's blood set on getting revenge. taste blood be stimulated by an early success.
young blood
1 a younger member or members of a group.
2 a rake or fashionable young man.
Etymology:
OE blod f. Gmc
N consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, ear relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation, related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german.
N fop, fine gentleman, swell, dandy, dandiprat, exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man, fribble, milliner, Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight, masher, dude, fine lady, coquette, flirt, vamp.
N nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order, quality, gentility, blue blood of Castile, ancien regime, high life, haute monde, upper classes, upper ten thousand, the four hundred, elite, aristocracy, great folks, fashionable world, peer, peerage, house of lords, house of peers, lords, lords temporal and spiritual, noblesse, noble, nobleman, lord, lordling, grandee, magnifico, hidalgo, daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku, don, donship, aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw, gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate, gentry, gentlefolk, squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates, pantisocracy, king, atheling, prince, duke, marquis, marquisate, earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret, baronet, baronetcy, knight, knighthood, count, armiger, laird, signior, seignior, esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour, emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali, sahib, chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave, princess, begum, duchess, marchioness, countess, lady, dame, memsahib, Do$a, maharani, rani, personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark, notables, notabilities, celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar, big bug, big gun, great gun, gilded rooster, magni nominis umbra, every inch a king, noble, exalted, of rank, princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic, high-, well-born, of gentle blood, genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly, highly respectable, in high quarters, Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete, adelig und edel sind zweierlei, noblesse oblige.
N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.
N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.
abo blood group system, arterial blood, arterial blood gases, arterial blood vessel, artificial blood, bad blood, blood agar, blood and thunder, blood bank, blood berry, blood blister, blood brother, blood brotherhood, blood cell, blood clam, blood clot, blood clotting, blood coagulation, blood corpuscle, blood count, blood cup, blood cyst, blood disease, blood disorder, blood donor, blood dyscrasia, blood extravasation, blood feud, blood flower, blood fluke, blood glucose, blood group, blood heat, blood kinship, blood knot, blood lily, blood line, blood meal, blood money, blood plasma, blood platelet, blood poisoning, blood pressure, blood profile, blood pudding, blood relation, blood relative, blood sausage, blood serum, blood spavin, blood sport, blood sugar, blood test, blood transfusion, blood type, blood typing, blood vessel, blue blood, cancer of the blood, complete blood count, differential blood count, dragon's blood, flesh and blood, full blood, half blood, high blood pressure, hot blood, in cold blood, in the blood, menstrual blood, mixed blood, psa blood test, red blood cell, rh-negative blood, rh-negative blood type, rh-positive blood type, shed blood, sweat blood, venous blood, venous blood system, venous blood vessel, white blood cell, white blood corpuscle, whole blood