Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DRA-GOON', v.t.

1. To persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. – Johnson.
2. To enslave or reduce to subjection by soldiers.
3. To harass; to persecute; to compel to submit by violent measures; to force. [This is the more usual sense.] The colonies may be influenced to any thing, but they can be dragooned to nothing. – Price.