| dron | He just drones on and on but hardly even touches on what we need to know for the test. |
| dron | She droned on for hours about her family history. |
| dronabinol | (n) psychoactive substance present in marijuana; used therapeutically to control nausea associated with cancer therapy |
| drone | (n) stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen |
| drone | (n) an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control, Syn. pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft |
| drone | (n) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone, Syn. drone pipe, bourdon |
| drone | (v) make a monotonous low dull sound, Example: The harmonium was droning on |
| drone | (v) talk in a monotonous voice, Syn. drone on |
| Drone | n. [ OE. drane a dronebee, AS. drān; akin to OS. drān, OHG. treno, G. drohne, Dan. drone, cf. Gr. &unr_; a kind of wasp, dial. Gr. &unr_; drone. Prob. named fr. the droning sound. See Drone, v. i. ] All with united force combine to drive By living as a drone, to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ] The monotonous drone of the wheel. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Drone | v. i. Where the beetle wheels his droning flight. T. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Drone bee | (Zool.) The male of the honeybee; a drone. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Drone fly | (Zool.) A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dronepipe | n. One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Drongo | n.; |
| Dronish | a. Like a drone; indolent; slow. Burke. -- |
| Dronkelewe | a. [ See Drink. ] Given to drink; drunken. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dronte | n. [ F. ] (Zool.) The dodo. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Drony | a. Like a drone; sluggish; lazy. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dronte { f } [ ornith. ] | dodo [Add to Longdo] |
| Drongokuckuck { m } [ ornith. ] | Drongo-Cuckoo [Add to Longdo] |