dragoon
1Dragoon — 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 …
2Dragoon — 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To compel submission by violent measures;… …
3dragoon — index bait (harass), coerce, persecute Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
4dragoon — (n.) 1620s, from Fr. dragon carbine, musket, because the guns the soldiers carried breathed fire like a dragon. The verb is from 1680s, lit. to force by the agency of dragoons (which were used by the French kings to persecute Protestants). Also… …
5dragoon — ► NOUN 1) a member of any of several British cavalry regiments. 2) historical a mounted infantryman armed with a carbine. ► VERB ▪ coerce into doing something. ORIGIN originally denoting a kind of carbine or musket, thought of as breathing fire:… …
6dragoon — [drə go͞on′] n. [Fr dragon (see DRAGON): ? so called from their fire breathing weapons] 1. Historical a) a mounted soldier armed with a short musket (called a dragon), capable of fighting on horseback or on foot b) a heavily armed cavalryman 2. a …
7Dragoon — This article is about mounted infantry, later cavalry, troops. For other uses, see Dragoon (disambiguation). Statue of a dragoon on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris The word dragoon originally meant mounted infantry, who were trained in… …
8Dragoon — The Legend of Dragoon The Legend of Dragoon Éditeur Sony Computer Entertainment Développeur Sony CE Japan …
9dragoon — dragoonage, n. /dreuh goohn /, n. 1. (esp. formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop. 2. a member of a military unit formerly composed of such cavalrymen, as in the British army. 3. (formerly) a mounted infantryman armed with a… …
10dragoon — I UK [drəˈɡuːn] / US [drəˈɡun] noun [countable] Word forms dragoon : singular dragoon plural dragoons a soldier in the past who rode a horse and used a gun II UK [drəˈɡuːn] / US [drəˈɡun] verb Word forms dragoon : present tense I/you/we/they… …
