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† ˈdragons Obs.
Forms: (1 draconze, dracentse, dracanse) 5 dragance, -ans, -auns, -ence, -onys, 5–6 dragaunce, 5–7 dragonce, 6–8 dragons.
[In late ME. dragance, a. OF. dragance, var. of dragonce (in med.L. dragancia, -ontia):—L. dracontia, for dracontium, a. Gr. δρακόντιον, f. δράκων, δρακοντ- dragon. The Lat. word had already given late OE. draconze, dracentse.]
A popular name of the dragonwort, Dracunculus vulgaris (formerly Arum Dracunculus).
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 12 Herba dracontea þæt ys dracentse. Ibid. II. 350 Wyrc þonne drenc font wæter, rudan, Saluian, cassuc, draconzan. c1440Promp. Parv. 130/1 Dragaunce, herbe (dragans, P.), dragancia. c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 48/1 Draguncea..gall. et angl. dragaunce. c1450Bk. Hawking in Rel. Ant. I. 301 Take the jus of dragonce. c1475Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 787/8 Hec dragansia, a dragauns. 1486Bk. St. Albans C viij a, Take Juce of dragonys. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 11 b, Thynges good for the Lyver: Wormewode..Dragons. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 202 Biting of a Dogge or Adder, drinke Dragons, Rue and Betony. 1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 804 The juyce of dragons, expressed out of the leaves, fruit, or root. 1757A. Cooper Distiller iii. xv. (1760) 170 Take Dragons, Rosemary, Wormwood, Sage. |