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eybee. 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.

An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.

A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.

A patron; a protector.

product in the oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone. [Written also chinhydrone.]

Formed into squadrons, or squares. [R.] Milton.

A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)

The drone of a bagpipe. Ruddiman.

A male or drone bee. Halliwell.

The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor. Robynson (More's Utopia).

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

Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.

An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.

A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.

fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.

To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums. P. Fletcher. Still humming on, their drowsy course they keep. Pope.