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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Dragonsbloodnoun
Dragonsblood is a resin, so oddly named as to seem to have been imagined an animal production. It is moderately heavy, friable, and dusky red; but of a bright scarlet, when powdered: it has little smell, and is of a resinous and astringent taste. One sort is very compact: another sort less compact, and less pure, is called common dragonsblood. A third sort is tough and viscous, and of a blood colour; and in keeping it grows hard, like the first sort. Four vegetables afford dragonsblood: one is a tall tree in the Canaries: the sanguis draconis exsudates from the cracks of the bark in the great heats. Another grows to six or eight feet high in the island of Java, where the resin is extracted from the fruit, about the size of a hazelnut, by boiling. A third is a tall tree in New Spain, and a true sanguis draconis flows from the trunk. The fourth grows in Java, and has a red bark: its trunk and large branches yield a resinous juice, which seems to be our finest sort of dragonsblood. John Hill Materia Medica.
Etymology: dragon and blood.
Take dragonsblood, beat it in a mortar, and put it in a cloth with aqua vita, and strain them together. Henry Peacham.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dragonsblood in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dragonsblood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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