A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
(military, historical) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
Any of the small perciform marine fish of the family Callionymidae found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera.
“To describe them in full, and to recount minutely the ideas held by the Japanese rustics concerning them, would be to compile an octavo work on dragonology.”