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.
chase the dragon take heroin (sometimes mixed with another smokable drug) by heating it in tinfoil and inhaling the fumes through a tube or roll of paper. Chase the dragon is reputedly a translation from Chinese. The expression apparently refers to the undulating movements of the fumes up and down the tinfoil, resembling those of the tail of a dragon, a creature found in many Chinese myths.