Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dragoon \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.

   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.

Dragoon \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
      serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted
      soldier; a cavalry man.

   2. A variety of pigeon. --Clarke.

   {Dragoon bird} (Zo["o]l.), the umbrella bird.

Source : WordNet®

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

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

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)