Definition of drone

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Drone (v. i.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee..

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Dog Bee :: Dog bee () A male or drone bee.
Quinhydrone :: Quinhydrone (n.) A green crystalline substance formed by the union of quinone with hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone..
Dorr :: Dorr (n.) The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor..
Drone :: Drone (v. i.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee..
Loord :: Loord (n.) A dull, stupid fellow; a drone..
Sluggard :: Sluggard (n.) A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone..
Slug :: Slug (n.) A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard..
Drone :: Drone (n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person..
Drone :: Drone (v. i.) A humming or deep murmuring sound.
Drone Bee :: Drone bee () The male of the honeybee; a drone.
Proa :: Proa (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known..
Snail :: Snail (n.) Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing..
Hum :: Hum (n.) A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz..
Ladrone :: Ladrone (n.) A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal..
Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys..
Hum :: Hum (v. i.) To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone..
Drone :: Drone (v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition..
Droned :: Droned (imp. & p. p.) of Dron.
Micronesian :: Micronesian (a.) Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc..
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