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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dagon \Dag"on\ (d[a^]g"[o^]n), noun [See {Dag} a loose end.] A slip or piece. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dagon \Da"gon\ (d[=a]"g[o^]n), [Heb. D[=a]gon, fr. dag a fish: cf. Gr. Dagw'n.] The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. --W. Smith.
This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol. --Milton.
They brought it into the house of Dagon. --1 Sam. v. 2.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Dagon
noun: god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Dagon little fish; diminutive from dag = a fish, the fish-god; the national god of the Philistines (Judg. 16:23). This idol had the body of a fish with the head and hands of a man. It was an Assyrio-Babylonian deity, the worship of which was introduced among the Philistines through Chaldea. The most famous of the temples of Dagon were at Gaza (Judg. 16:23-30) and Ashdod (1 Sam. 5:1-7). (See {FISH}.)
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Dagon, corn; a fish
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