dragonish
Adjective

dragonish

  1. Having the characteristics of a dragon.
    • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 14,
      Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, / A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, / A forked mountain, or blue promontory / With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, / And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; / They are black vesper's pageants.
    • c. 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, OCLC 5093462 ↗, page 52 ↗:
      Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ˈ damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black.



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