<span class="searchmatch">dragoon</span> <span class="searchmatch">birds</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">dragoon</span> <span class="searchmatch">bird</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">dragoon</span> <span class="searchmatch">bird</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">dragoon</span> <span class="searchmatch">birds</span>) (obsolete) An umbrellabird (Cephalopterus spp.), of South America. (obsolete) A noisy pitta (Pitta versicolor), of...
French dragon (“dragon (mythological creature); type of cavalry soldier, <span class="searchmatch">dragoon</span>”) (originally referring to a soldier armed with the firearm of the same...
from a term used of <span class="searchmatch">birds</span> that could not fly (chicks, fledglings, chickens) as opposed to the general Old English term for flying <span class="searchmatch">birds</span>, fugol (modern fowl)...
walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing <span class="searchmatch">dragoon</span>; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […]. 1920, Agatha Christie...
the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light <span class="searchmatch">dragoons</span> had hutted themselves. 1850, Washington Irving, chapter 56, in The Life...
and the good-natured young gentleman, and Pendennis laughing, and the <span class="searchmatch">dragoons</span> in the opposite box, began clapping hands to the best of their power. 1980...
N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC: The Sixth Inniskilling <span class="searchmatch">Dragoons</span> and the First Battalion Royal Scots will be in attendance, and there will...
another. 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Bold <span class="searchmatch">Dragoon</span>, or The Adventure of My Grandfather”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange...