dragon's head
English
editNoun
edit- Alternative form of dragonhead (“flowering plant”)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (heraldry) Tenné or tawny, when blazoning is done by the heavenly bodies.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dragon, head.
- 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry, page 103:
- Or, a cross engrailed gu.—Crest, a dragon's head and wings per pale or and gu. on his breast a cinquefoil. Hawte.