GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Dragoon , n. [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.]
   ((Mil.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
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   A variety of pigeon.
   Clarke.
   
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   Dragoon bird (Zool.), the umbrella bird.
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   Dragoon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragooned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning.]
   To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
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   To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
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   The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing.
   Price.
   
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   Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven.
   Macaulay.
   
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