We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
dragon (s.xii1/3)
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

dragon (s.xii1/3)

Cite this entry
dragoun,  dragun,  dragune,  dragunt;  dracon  (gragoun  BOZ S Mar 63)  
  FEW:  draco 3,150a Gdf:  dragon 2,767a GdfC:  dragon 9,414a TL: dragon 2,2056 DEAF:  dragon  DMF:  dragon  TLF:  dragon  OED:  dragon n. 1  MED:  dragoun n. 1  DMLBS:  draco 726b

s.

1zool.mythologicaldragon: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Vint uns draguns flammanz mult cler  S Brend mup 1016
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Draconitides est nomee Pur le dragon dunt est trovee  Lapid 229.756
( s.xiii1/3; MS: c.1255 )  Hercules, qui occist le dragun  Resur (P) 33
( MS: c.1250 )  hic draco: dragon  TLL i 426.444
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  Atant vint un dragoun qe la prist e emporta en un haut mount  Fouke ANTS 54.17
2mil.ensign, standard: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  En som le pomel d’or desus le dragon, La fet ly roys lever son mestre gonfanon  Rom Chev ANTS 3466
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  [...] sunt les dragons aportez en bataille de dragoners  vegetius2 47.11
3 name (used as a surname): 
( 1166 )  Walter Dragun  Family Names Dragon
sanc de dragon
bot.dragon’s blood: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  sanc de dragon triblee en poudre de aubun de oef  A-N Med i 212
( MS: c.1300 )  Sanguis draconis: succus herbe est g[allice] saunk de dragune  Bot Gloss 246

See also:

dragoner  dragoncel  dragonee1  dragonee2 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
dragon