Definition of "flapdragon"

flapdragon

noun
countable and uncountable, plural flapdragons
1. (obsolete) A game in which the players take raisins out of burning brandy, and swallow them.
  Quotations
  From stabbing of armes, Flap-dragons […] and all such swaggering Humors.
  1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616
2. Any of the raisins in this game.
  Quotations
  Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdragon.
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]