Brewer's: Fire-drake

or Fire-dragon. A fiery serpent, an ignis-fatuus of large proportions, superstitiously believed to be a flying dragon keeping guard over hid treasures.

“There is a fellow somewhat near the door, he should be a brazier by his face, for, o' my conscience, twenty of the dog-days now reign in 's nose ... That fire-drake did I hit three times on the head.” —Shakespeare: Henry VIII., v. 3.

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