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It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically. Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out;…

Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor.

Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.

The stone forming a threshold.

A little dragon. Spenser.

A dragoon. [Obs.]

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.…

A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.

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.

The male of the honeybee; a drone.

A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.

One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.

Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.

Constructed of uncemented stone. "Dry-stone walls." Sir W. Scott.

Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed.

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.

A breaking out with some interjectional particle.

A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown.

An animated or passionate exclamation. The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various. Gibbs.