Droll (v. t.) To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.
Droll (v. t.) To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.
Droller (n.) A jester; a droll.
Drolleries (pl. ) of Drollery
Drollery (n.) The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
Drollery (n.) Something which serves to raise mirth
Drollery (n.) A puppet show; also, a puppet.
Drollery (n.) A lively or comic picture.
Drollingly (adv.) In a jesting manner.
Drollish (a.) Somewhat droll.
Drollist (n.) A droll.
Dromaeognathous (a.) Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.
Dromatherium (n.) A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.
Drome (n.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.
Dromedaries (pl. ) of Dromedary
Dromedary (n.) The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.
Dromond () Alt. of Dromon
Dromon () In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel.
Drone (v. i.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
Drone (v. i.) One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
Drone (v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
Drone (v. i.) A humming or deep murmuring sound.
Drone (v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
Droned (imp. & p. p.) of Drone
Droning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drone
Drone (n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
Drone (n.) To love in idleness; to do nothing.
Drone bee () The male of the honeybee; a drone.
Drone fly () A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.
Dronepipe (n.) One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
Drongos (pl. ) of Drongo
Drongo (n.) A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.
Dronish (a.) Like a drone; indolent; slow.
Dronkelewe (a.) Given to drink; drunken.
Dronte (n.) The dodo.
Drony (a.) Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.
Drooled (imp. & p. p.) of Drool
Drooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drool
Drool (v. i.) To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.
Drooped (imp. & p. p.) of Droop
Drooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Droop
Droop (v. i.) 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.
Droop (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
Droop (v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
Droop (v. t.) To let droop or sink.
Droop (n.) A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
Drooper (n.) One who, or that which, droops.
Droopingly (adv.) In a drooping manner.
Drop (n.) 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.
Drop (n.) 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.
Drop (n.) Same as Gutta.
Drop (n.) Any small pendent ornament.
Drop (n.) Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something
Drop (n.) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.
Drop (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.
Drop (n.) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.
Drop (n.) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.
Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.
Drop (n.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
Drop (n.) Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
Drop (n.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.
Drop (n.) Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.
Dropped (imp. & p. p.) of Drop
Dropt () of Drop
Dropping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drop
Drop (n.) To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.
Drop (n.) To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.
Drop (n.) To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
Drop (n.) To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.
Drop (n.) To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
Drop (n.) To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
Drop (n.) To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
Drop (n.) To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
Drop (v. i.) To fall in drops.
Drop (v. i.) To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
Drop (v. i.) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
Drop (v. i.) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
Drop (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
Drop (v. i.) To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
Drop (v. i.) To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
Drop (v. i.) To fall short of a mark.
Drop (v. i.) To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
Droplet (n.) A little drop; a tear.
Droplight (n.) An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.
Dropmeal (adv.) Alt. of Dropmele
Dropmele (adv.) By drops or small portions.
Dropper (n.) One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
Dropper (n.) A dropping tube.
Dropper (n.) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
Dropper (n.) A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.
Dropping (n.) The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
Dropping (n.) That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals.
Droppinly (adv.) In drops.
Dropsical (a.) Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.
Dropsical (a.) Of or pertaining to dropsy.
Dropsicalness (n.) State of being dropsical.
Dropsied (a.) Diseased with drops.
Dropsies (pl. ) of Dropsy
Dropsy (n.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Dropt () imp. & p. p. of Drop, v.