Drone" bee` (?). (Zoöl.) The male of the honeybee; a drone.
Drone" fly` (?). (Zoöl.) A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.
Drone"pipe`, n. One of the low- toned tubes of a bagpipe.
Dron"go (?), n.; pl. Drongos (&?;). (Zoöl.) A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.
Dron"ish (?), a. Like a drone; indolent; slow. Burke. -- Dron"ish*ly, adv. -- Dron"ish*ness, n.
Dron"ke*lewe (?), a. [See Drink.] Given to drink; drunken. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dron"te (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The dodo.
Dron"y (?), a. Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.
Drool (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drooling.] [Contr. fr. drivel.] To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.
His mouth drooling with texts.
T. Parker.
Droop (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] [Icel. dr&?;pa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.] 1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson.
I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
Swift.
2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
Addison.
3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then day drooped." Tennyson.
Droop, v. t. To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold.
Like to a withered vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
Shak.
Droop, n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
Droop"er (?), n. One who, or that which, droops.
Droop"ing*ly, adv. In a drooping manner.
Drop (?), n. [OE. drope, AS. dropa; akin to OS. dropo, D. drop, OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dreópan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. triefen, Icel. drj&?;pa. Cf. Drip, Droop.] 1. The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.
With minute drops from off the eaves.
Milton.
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.
Shak.
That drop of peace divine.
Keble.
2. That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.