Word Meanings - DRONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

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• 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 BEE
  The male of the honeybee; a drone.
• DRONE FLY
  A dipterous insect , resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.
• SLUGGISH
  1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. 3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power
• 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.