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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dragoon
    n 1: a member of a European military unit formerly composed of
         heavily armed cavalrymen
    v 1: compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They
         sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" [syn:
         dragoon, sandbag, railroad]
    2: subjugate by imposing troops

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dragoon \Dra*goon"\ (dr[.a]*g[=oo]n"), 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.]
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A variety of pigeon. --Clarke.
      [1913 Webster]

   Dragoon bird (Zool.), the umbrella bird.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dragoon \Dra*goon"\, v. t. [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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to
      persecute.
      [1913 Webster]

            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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4. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
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)


5. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
DRAGOON, n.  A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal
measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on
horseback.


Thesaurus Results for dragoon:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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