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noun

Dragoon n.

((Mil.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.

A variety of pigeon.

Dragoon bird (Zool.), the umbrella bird.

verb

Dragoon v. t. (past & past part. dragooned; pres. part. dragooning)

To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute. "The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing." "Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven."

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"Dragoon" Quotes from Famous Books

... but that of Vich Ian Vohr was not among them, and Edward passed on with some hope that in spite of the Bodach Glas, Fergus might have escaped his doom. They found Callum Beg, however, his tough skull cloven at last by a dragoon's sword, but there was no sign either of Evan or of ...

— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett

... The dragoon glared at the doctor and then at his prisoner. "Pah!" He thrust the lad into the hands of his men. "Fetch him along to Bridgewater. And make fast that fellow also," he pointed to Baynes. "We'll show him what it means to harbour ...

— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini

... a short notice, but by the time named the four aides-de-camp were in their saddles, as were their soldier servants, for by this time Desmond's two friends had obtained servants from a dragoon regiment. They were but just in time, for they had scarcely mounted when the duke came out, sprang into his saddle, and ...

— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty

... for a fine-drawn bead, There's music around when my barrel's in tune!" Crack! went the rifle, the messenger sped, And dead from his horse fell the ringing dragoon. ...

— How the Flag Became Old Glory • Emma Look Scott

... guests had crowded up too close, and not left room enough for the actors. So the manager had placed them in a little ante-room, and when Mrs. de Graffenried observed this, she rushed at the man, and swore at him like a dragoon, and ordered the bewildered performers out into ...

— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair

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