From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dragoon \Dra*goon"\ (dr[.a]*g[=oo]n"), noun [F. dragon dragon, dragoon, fr. L. draco dragon, also, a cohort's standard (with a dragon on it). The name was given from the sense standard. See {Dragon}.]
1. ((Mil.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
2. A variety of pigeon. --Clarke.
{Dragoon bird} (Zo["o]l.), the umbrella bird.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dragoon \Dra*goon"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dragooned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dragooning}.]
1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing. --Price.
Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
verb
1: compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" [syn: {sandbag}, {railroad}]
2: subjugate by imposing troops
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "dragoon": blackjack, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, cavalryman, coerce, cossack, cow, cuirassier, demoralize, harass, heavy dragoon, hector, hijack, huff, hussar, intimidate, lance, lancer, ruffle, shanghai, spahi, steamroller, strong-arm, systematically terrorize, terrorize, threaten, trooper, uhlan, use violence
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
DRAGOON A {distributed}, {concurrent}, {object-oriented} {Ada}-based language developed in the {Esprit} {DRAGON} project by Colin Atkinson at {Imperial College} in 1989 (Now at University of Houston, Clear Lake). DRAGOON supports object-oriented programming for {embeddable systems} and is presently implemented as an Ada {preprocessor}. ["Object-Oriented Reuse, Concurrency and Distribution: An Ada-Based Approach", C. Atkinson, A-W 1991, ISBN 0-2015-6-5277]. (1999-11-22)
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
DRAGOON, noun A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.
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