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

dragoon \dragoon"\ dr.ag=oon", 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.
      1913 webster

   2. a variety of pigeon. --clarke.
      1913 webster

   dragoon bird zool., the umbrella bird.
      1913 webster
see also:
dragon dragoon bird 

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

dragoon \dragoon"\, 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to
      persecute.
      1913 webster

            the colonies may be influenced to anything, but they
            can be dragooned to nothing.          --price.
      1913 webster

            lewis the fourteenth is justly censured for trying
            to dragoon his subjects to heaven.    --macaulay.
      1913 webster
see also:
dragooned dragooning 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
sandbag railroad 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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
     
     
see also:
distributed concurrent object-oriented ada esprit dragon 
imperial college embeddable systems preprocessor 

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

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.

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