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Noun: dragon  dra-gun
  1. A creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
    - European dragon, firedrake
     
  2. [informal] A fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
     
  3. Any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
    - flying dragon, flying lizard
Verb: drag on
  1. Last unnecessarily long
    - drag out
     
  2. Proceed for an extended period of time
    "The speech dragged on for two hours";
    - drag, drag out
Noun: Dragon
  1. A faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus
    - Draco

Derived forms: dragging on, drags on, dragged on, dragons

Type of: agamid, agamid lizard, constellation, disagreeable woman, endure, go, last, mythical creature, mythical monster, proceed, unpleasant woman

Part of: Draco, genus Draco

Encyclopedia: Dragon, Richard