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Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.

Like a drone; indolent; slow. Burke. -- Dron"ish*ly, adv. -- Dron"ish*ness, n.

Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

n animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

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.

ho makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. Shak.

fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. W. Irving.

rhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. -- To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of th…

Having a bill like that of a duck..

Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged. Dryden.

To shiver or tremble; to dodder. I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf. Ford.

Like, or characterized of, a dude.

A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note. Burrill.

A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like.

l, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. Shak. Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. Trench.

mon is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. Percival.

by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

Like a dunce; duncish. The most dull and duncical commissioner. Fuller.

Somewhat like a dunce. [R.] -- Dun"cish*ness, n. [R.]

s, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.