DRAGOON

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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

2.
n.

A variety of pigeon. Clarke. Dragoon bird (Zoöl.), the umbrella bird.

3.
v.

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

4.
v.

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.

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