Webster's English Dictionarydragon
drag.on \'drag-*n\ n [ME, fr. OF, fr. L dracon-, draco serpent, dragon, fr. Gk drako|B-n serpent; akin to OE torht bright, Gk derkesthai to see, look at archaic 1: a huge serpent 2: a fabulous animal usu. represented as a monstrous winged and scaly serpe nt or saurian with a crested head and enormous claws 3: a violent, combative, or very strict person 4a: a short musket formerly carried hooked to a soldier's belt; also : a soldier carrying such a musket 4b: an artillery tractor 5: any of numerous small brilliantly colored arboreal lizards (genus Dra co) of the East Indies and southern Asia having the hind ribs on each side prolonged and covered with a web of skin cap 6: DRACO