Dragoon

n.	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.
	2.	A variety of pigeon. Dragoon bird (Zool.) the umbrella bird.
v. t.	1.	To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. [imp. & p. p. Dragooned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning.]
	2.	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.

Noun	1.	dragoon - a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
Verb	1.	dragoon - compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" Synonyms: railroad, sandbag
	2.	dragoon - subjugate by imposing troops

(language)

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].

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

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