Webster's Dictionary 1828

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DROLLING

DROLLING, noun Low wit; buffoonery.

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DROLLINGLY

DROLLINGLY, adverb In a jesting manner.

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DROLLISH

DROLLISH, adjective Somewhat droll.

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DROMEDARY

DROMEDARY, noun [Gr., perhaps from swiftness, running.] A species of camel, called also the Arabian camel, with one bunch or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Ba...

3785

DRONE

DRONE, noun [G., to tinkle, to shake, to tingle.]1. 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 a...

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DRONE-FLY

DRONE-FLY, noun A two-winged insect, resembling the drone-bee.

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DRONING

DRONING, participle present tense Living in idleness; giving a dull sound.

3788

DRONISH

DRONISH, adjective Idle; sluggish; lazy; indolent; inactive; slow.

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DROOP

DROOP, verb intransitive [Latin, from the root of drop.]1. To sink or hang down; to lean downwards, as a body that is weak or languishing. Plants droop for want of moisture; the...

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DROOPING

DROOPING, participle present tense Sinking; hanging or leaning downward; declining; languishing; failing.

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DROP

DROP, noun [G.]1. 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 p...

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DROP-SERENE

DROP-SERENE, noun A disease of the eye; amaurosis, or blindness from a diseased retina.

3793

DROP-STONE

DROP-STONE, noun Spar in the shape of drops.

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DROP-WORT

DROP-WORT, noun The name of a plant, the Spiraea filipendula. The hemlock drop-wort and the water drop-wort are species of Oenanthe.

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DROPLET

DROPLET, noun A little drop.

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DROPPED

DROPPED, participle passive Let fall; distilled; laid aside; dismissed; let go; suffered to subside; sprinkled or variegated.

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DROPPING

DROPPING, participle present tense Falling in globules; distilling; falling; laying aside; dismissing; quitting; suffering to rest or subside; variegating with ornaments like dr...

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DROPS

DROPS, verb transitive [G.]1. To pour or let fall in small portions or globules, as a fluid; to distill.The heavens shall drop down dew. Deuteronomy 33:1.2. To let fall as any s...

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DROPSICAL

DROPSICAL, adjective [See Dropsy.]1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; inclined to the dropsy; applied to persons.2. Partaking of the nature of the dropsy; applied to disease.

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DROPSIED

DROPSIED, adjective Diseased with dropsy.

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DROPSY

DROPSY, noun [L, Gr., water; the face. Formerly written hydropisy; whence by contraction, dropsy] In medicine, an unnatural collection of water, in an part of the body, proceedi...

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DROSS

DROSS, noun [G.]1. The recrement or despumation of metals; the scum or extraneous matter of metals, thrown off in the process of melting.2. Rust; crust of metals; an incrustatio...

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DROSSINESS

DROSSINESS, noun Foulness; rust; impurity; a state of being drossy.

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DROSSY

DROSSY, adjective1. Like dross; pertaining to dross.2. Full of dross; abounding with scorious or recrementitious matter; as drossy gold.3. Worthless; foul; impure.

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DROTCHEL

DROTCHEL, noun An idle wench; a sluggard. [Not in use.]

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DROUGHT

DROUGHT. [See Drouth.]

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DROUGHTINESS

DROUGHTINESS, noun Drouthiness.