drail (dral)

[ Brome, On Sir G. B. his defeat. drain (drān), v. [E. dial. also drean, dreen; We drave him back to Bonny brigs, Dragoons , and foot, and a'. Up and War Them A ', Willie (Child's Ballads, VII. 266). 2t. A dragonade. Endeavour to bring men to the catholick faith (as they pretend) by dragoons and imprisonments, not by demonstrations and reasons out of Scripture. F. Bp . Barlow , Remains, p. 265. 3. Same as dragon , 2 ( c ). dragoon (dra-gön'), (dra-gön'), v. t . [ dragoon , dragoon, after subject to the violence of dragoons, dragon , dragonner , dragoon, hara , persecute, lit. dragoon: see dragoon , n., dragonade .] 1. To set dragoons or soldiers upon, as in the drag- onades des (see dragonade ); persecute or oppre by by armed a force.-2. To cause to submit, as by persistent threats; compel by repeated acts of any kind; hara . Deny to have your free-born Toe Dragoon'd into a wooden Shoe. Prior, To Fleet wood Shephard. Mr. Gladstone is not the only minister who has defied public opinion, but he is almost the only one in recent times who has dragooned a majority of Parliament into sustaining him in it for the lack of any representative man to supplant him. N. A. Rev. , CXXXIX. 104. dragoonadet (drag-ö-nād′), n. Same as drag onade. Bp. Burnet. dragoon-bird (dra-gön'bėrd), n. A large black fruit-crow of South America, Cephalopterus or nat us: so called from the great recurved helmet-like crest of feathers. Also called um brella -bird.