drag | (noun) the act of dragging (pulling with force) | - |
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(noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: puff, pull |
(noun) clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man) | - |
(noun) something tedious and boring | - |
(noun) something that slows or delays progress | - |
(noun) the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid | Synonyms: retarding force |
dragee | (noun) pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy | - |
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(noun) sugar-coated nut or fruit piece | - |
(noun) silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes | - |
dragger | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: trawler |
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(noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: puller, tugger |
dragnet | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: trawl, trawl net |
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(noun) a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals) | - |
dragoman | (noun) an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government) | - |
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dragon | (noun) any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body | Synonyms: flying dragon, flying lizard |
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(noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: tartar |
(noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: European dragon, firedrake |
dragonet | (noun) small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America | - |
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dragonfly | (noun) slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. | Synonyms: darning needle, devil's darning needle, mosquito hawk, sewing needle, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder |
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dragonhead | (noun) American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers | Synonyms: Dracocephalum parviflorum, dragon's head |
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dragoon | (noun) a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen | - |
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