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Webster 1913 Edition


Dragoon

Dra-goon′

(drȧ-goōn′)
,
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
(Zool.)
,
the umbrella bird.

Dra-goon′

,
Verb.
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.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dragoon

DRAGOON

,
Noun.
[G., L, an ensign bearer; dragon; an appellation given to horsemen, perhaps for their rapidity or fierceness.] A soldier or musketeer who serves on horseback or on foot, as occasion may require. Their arms are a sword, a musket and a bayonet.

DRAGOON

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
2.
To enslave or reduce to subjection by soldiers.
3.
To harass; to persecute; to compel to submit by violent measures; to force. [This is the more usual sense.]
The colonies may be influenced to any thing, but they can de dragooned to nothing.

Definition 2024


dragoon

dragoon

English

Noun

dragoon (plural dragoons)

  1. (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
    • 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience
      If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
      Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -
      Take all the remarkable people in history,
      Rattle them off to a popular tune!
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter II”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional menphysicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; [].
  2. A carrier of a dragon musket.
  3. A variety of pigeon.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarke to this entry?)

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Verb

dragoon (third-person singular simple present dragoons, present participle dragooning, simple past and past participle dragooned)

  1. To force someone into doing something; to coerce.

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