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9 words match “DRAGOON”

DRAGOON n. 4 definitions
A variety of pigeon. Clarke. Dragoon bird (Zoöl.), the umbrella bird.
DRAGOONADE n.
See Dragonnade.
DRAGOONER n.
A dragoon. [Obs.]
BIDET n.
A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson.
BOLT adv.
he manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly. [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon. Thackeray. Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DRAGONNADE n.
severe 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.
TROOP n.
Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.
UMBRELLA n.
sting of a long, cylindrical dermal process covered with soft hairy feathers. Called also dragoon bird. -- Umbrella leaf (Bot.), an American perennial herb (Dyphylleia cymosa), having very large peltate and lobed radical leaves. -- Umbrella shell. (Zoöl.) See Umbrella, 3. -- Umbrella tree (Bot.), a kind of magnolia…
WATER DECK n.
A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.