These sometimes have 50 or 60 players with nine sizes of instrument. 1  Oxford Companion to Music. see section 2 of the article on Recorder Family. 2  Hamlet, Act III scene ii, Hamlet: Ah, ha! Come, some music! 3  Paradise Lost, Book I: Anon they move/ in perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood/ flutes and soft recorders.
home / medterms medical dictionary a-z list / chasing the dragon definition Medical Definition of Chasing the dragon Chasing the dragon: A practice of heroin use involving heating heroin and then inhaling it. Some heroin users have gone to this practice because they believe erroneously that it will protect them against contracting HIV and other diseases associated with injecting heroin.
For the lizard genus named after the character, see Smaug (genus) . Smaug (/smaÊÉ¡/) is a fictional dragon and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien 's 1937 novel The Hobbit. He was a fearsome dragon who invaded the Dwarf kingdom of Erebor 150 years prior to the events described in the novel. In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Smaug attacks Lake-town. 2  He is killed by Bard with an elongated iron arrow as his body falls on the boat carrying the fleeing Master of Lake-town. 3  It is later revealed that Smaug's attack on Erebor was all part of Sauron's design.