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Drone :: Drone (n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound..

Drone Bee :: Drone bee () The male of the honeybee; a drone.

Drony :: Drony (a.) Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

Hum :: Hum (v. i.) To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums..

Lubber :: Lubber (n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown..

Drone Fly :: Drone fly () A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis..

Bourdon :: Bourdon (n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.).

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..

Faburden :: Faburden (n.) A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.

Ladrone :: Ladrone (n.) A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal..

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..

Padrone :: Padrone (n.) A patron; a protector.

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..

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..

Eristalis :: Eristalis (n.) A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larvae) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly..

Drone :: Drone (v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition..

Drone :: Drone (v. i.) A humming or deep murmuring sound.

Patron :: Patron (n.) See Padrone, 2..

Drone :: Drone (n.) To love in idleness; to do nothing.

Mopus :: Mopus (n.) A mope; a drone.

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