Dragoon

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. A variety of pigeon. --Clarke.
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     {Dragoon bird} (Zool.), the umbrella bird.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. 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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dragoon
       n : 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: {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, n.  A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal
  measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on
  horseback.