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<h1>Dragonlike</h1> <Xpage=450>

<hw>Drag"on*like`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a dragon.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

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<h1>Dragonnade</h1> <Xpage=451>

<hw>Drag`on*nade"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. <ets>dragon</ets> dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.]</ety> <def>The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.</def>

<blockquote>He learnt it as he watched the <b>dragonnades</b>, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. <i>C. Kingsley.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, Dragon's tail</h1> <Xpage=451>

<hw><hw>Drag"on's blood</hw>, <hw>Drag"on's head</hw>, <hw>Drag"on's tail</hw><hw>. <def>See <cref>Dragon's blood</cref>, <cref>Dragon's head</cref>, etc., under <er>Dragon</er>.</def>

<h1>Dragoon</h1> <Xpage=451>

<hw>Dra*goon"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>dragon</ets> dragon, dragoon, fr. L. <ets>draco</ets> dragon, also, a cohort's standard (with a dragon on it). The name was given from the sense <ets>standard</ets>. See <er>Dragon</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>((Mil.)</fld> <def>Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A variety of pigeon.</def>

<i>Clarke.</i>

<cs><col>Dragoon bird</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the umbrella bird.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dragoon</h1> <Xpage=451>

<hw>Dra*goon"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dragooned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dragooning</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.</def>

<blockquote>The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be <b>dragooned</b> to nothing. <i>Price.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to <b>dragoon</b> his subjects to heaven. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dragoonade</h1> <Xpage=451>

<hw>Drag`oon*ade"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Dragonnade</er>.</def>

<h1>Dragooner</h1> <Xpage=451>

<hw>Dra*goon"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dragoon.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Drail</h1> <Xpage=451>

<hw>Drail</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <ety>[<?/<?/<?/.]</ety> <def>To trail; to draggle.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>South.</i>