Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DROLL'ISH – DROP'SI-ED
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DROLL'ISH, a.
Somewhat droll.
DROM'E-DA-RY, n. [Fr. dromadaire; Sp. dromedario; Port. and It. id.; Ir. droman; Gr. δρομας; from swiftness, running, Gr. δρομος, εδραμον, δρεμω. This explanation supposes the word to be of Greek origin.]
- A species of camel, called also the Arabian camel, with one bunch or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two bunches.
- Any quick traveling camel.
DRONE, n. [Sax. drane, dræn; G. drohne, whence dröhnen, to tinkle, to shake, to tingle. See Ar. Nos. 4 and 7, Class Rn.]
- The male of the honey bee. It is smaller than the queen bee, but larger than the working bee. The drones make no honey, but after living a few weeks, they are killed or driven from the hive. – Encyc. Hence,
- An idler; a sluggard; one who earns nothing by industry. – Addison.
- A humming or low sound, or the instrument of humming. – Milton.
- The largest tube of the bag-pipe, which emits a continued deep note.
DRONE, v.i.
- To live in idleness; as, a droning king. – Dryden.
- To give a low, heavy, dull sound; as, the cymbal's droning sound. – Dryden.
DRONE'-FLY, n.
A two winged insect, resembling a drone-bee.
DRON'ING, ppr.
Living in idleness; giving a dull sound.
DRON'ISH, a.
Idle; sluggish; lazy; indolent; inactive, slow. – Rowe.
DRON'ISH-LY, adv.
In a dronish manner.
DRON'ISH-NESS, n.
State of being dronish.
DROOP, v.i. [Sax. drepan; Ice. driupa. This word is probably from the root of the L. torpeo, the letters being transposed; or from the root of drop, D. druipen, to drip, drop or droop. Indeed all may be of one family.]
- To sink or hang down; to lean downward, as a body that is weak or languishing. Plants droop for want of moisture; the human body droops in old age or infirmity.
- To languish from grief or other cause. – Sandys.
- To fail or sink; to decline; as, the courage or the spirits droop.
- To faint; to grow weak; to be dispirited; as, the soldiers droop from fatigue.
DROOP'ED, pp.
Languished; grown weak.
DROOP'ING, ppr.
Sinking; hanging or leaning downward; declining; languishing; failing.
DROOP'ING-LY, adv.
In a languishing manner.
DROP, n. [Sax. dropa, a drop; dropian, to drop; G. tropfen; D. drop; Sw. droppe; Dan. draabe. Heb. רעף, Ar. رَعَفَ raafa, and ذَرَفَ tharafa, to drop. Class Rb, No. 11. Heb. ערף id.]
- A small portion of any fluid in a spherical form, which falls at once from any body, or a globule of any fluid which is pendent, as if about to fall; a small portion of water falling in rain; as, a drop of water; a drop of blood; a drop of laudanum.
- A diamond hanging from the ear; an earring; something hanging in the form of a drop.
- A very small quantity of liquor; as he had not drank a drop.
- The part of a gallows which sustains the criminal before he is executed, and which is suddenly dropped.
DROP, v.i.
- To distill; to fall in small portions, globules or drops, as a liquid. Water drops from the clouds or from the eaves.
- To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. The heavens dropped at the presence of God. – Ps. lxviii.
- To fall; to descend suddenly or abruptly.
- To fall spontaneously; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree.
- To die, or to die suddenly. We see one friend after another dropping round us. They drop into the grave.
- To come to an end; to cease; to be neglected and come to nothing; as, the affair dropped.
- To come unexpectedly; with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in, a moment.
- To fall short of a mark. [Not usual.]. Often it drops or overshoots. – Collier.
- To fall lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
- To be deep in extent. Her main top-sail drops seventeen yards. – Mar. Dict. To drop astern, in seamen's language, is to pass or move toward the stern; to move back; or to slacken the velocity of a vessel to let another beyond her. To drop down, in seamen's language, is to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea.
DROP, v.t. [Sax. dropian; D. druipen; G. traüfen or tropfen; Sw. drypa; Dan. drypper; Russ. krapayu.]
- To pour or let fall in small portions or globules, as a fluid; to distill. The heavens shall drop down dew. – Deut. xxxiii.
- To let fall as any substance; as, to drop the anchor; to drop a stone.
- To let go; to dismiss; to lay aside; to quit; to leave; to permit to subside; as, to drop an affair; to drop a controversy; to drop a pursuit.
- To utter slightly, briefly or casually; as, to drop a word in favor of a friend.
- To insert indirectly, incidentally, or by way of digression; as, to drop a word of instruction in a letter.
- To lay aside; to dismiss from possession; as, to drop these frail bodies.
- To leave; as, to drop a letter at the post-office.
- To set down and leave; as, the coach dropped a passenger at the inn.
- To quit; to suffer to cease; as, to drop an acquaintance.
- To let go; to dismiss from association; as, to drop a companion.
- To suffer to end or come to nothing; as, to drop a fashion.
- To bedrop; to speckle; to variegate, as if by sprinkling with drops; as, a coat dropped with gold. – Milton.
- To lower; as, to drop the muzzle of a gun.
DROP'LET, n.
A little drop. – Shak.
DROP'PED, pp.
Let fall; distilled; laid aside; dismissed; let go; suffered to subside; sprinkled or variegated.
DROP'PING, n.
- The act of dropping; a distilling; a falling.
- That which drops.
DROP'PING, ppr.
Falling in globules; distilling; falling; laying aside; dismissing; quitting; suffering to rest or subside; variegating with ornaments like drops.
DROP'PING-LY, adv.
In drops.
DROPS, n. [plur.]
In medicine, a liquid remedy, the dose of which is regulated by a certain number of drops. – Encyc.
DROP'-SE-RENE, n. [gutta serena.]
A disease of the eye; amaurosis, or blindness from a diseased retina. – Milton. Coxe.
DROP'SI-CAL, a. [See Dropsy.]
- Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; inclined to the dropsy; applied to persons.
- Partaking of the nature of the dropsy; applied to disease.
DROP'SI-ED, a.
Diseased with dropsy. – Shak.