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vere persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.

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

See Dragonnade.

A dragoon. [Obs.]

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

See Dragoman.

a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.

An aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East Indies, and Australia. [Written also duyong.]

A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [U.S.] A man stepped from his slender dugout. G. W. Cable.

Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.

A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

hether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

Pertaining to egoism. [R.]

The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.

Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving. Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable. G. Eliot.

In an egoistic manner.

Personality. [R.] Swift.