Word Meanings - DRONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden. 2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living

Additional info about word: DRONE

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden. 2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton. 3. That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: A drum. Halliwell. The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth. 4. A humming or deep murmuring sound. The monotonous drone of the wheel. Longfellow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRONE)

• Drawl Drag
• lag
• drone

Related words: (words related to DRONE)

• DRAWLINK
  See
• DRAWL
  To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
• DRAWLATCH
  A housebreaker or thief. Old Play .
• DRONE
  The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden. 2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living
• DRONE FLY
  A dipterous insect , resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.
• DRONE BEE
  The male of the honeybee; a drone.
• DRAWLOOM
  1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy. 2. A species of damask made on the drawloom.
• DRAWLING
  The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. -- Drawl"ing*ly, adv. Bacon.
• DRONEPIPE
  One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
• SQUADRONED
  Formed into squadrons, or squares. Milton.
• LADRONE
  A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.
• QUINHYDRONE
  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
  1. A patron; a protector. 2. The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean. 3. A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.
• HYDRONEPHROSIS
  An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.