Definition of dagon:

part of speech: noun

The national god of the anc. Philistines, & c., represented with the face and hands of a man and the tail of a fish.

Usage examples:

• It is a Dagon that falls upon its worshipers and crushes them to death. T. De Witt Talmage in "Around The Tea-Table".

• There are besides temples and fanes, many solid bell- shaped pagodas of the Shwey Dagon type. William G. Burn Murdoch in "From Edinburgh to India & Burmah".

• If any one wants to have the wrinkles rolled out of his soul- let him go and rest in the quiet, and sun, and simple beauty of the Shwey Dagon Pagoda, with its tapering golden spire and the blue sky above. William G. Burn Murdoch in "From Edinburgh to India & Burmah".

• I must come back; on this journey I have already seen so much on the way here- some day I will come out direct and paint this one scene, and perhaps one or two in the Shwey Dagon Pagoda-" if I'm spaired," as they say in the lowlands, instead of knocking under the table. William G. Burn Murdoch in "From Edinburgh to India & Burmah".