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Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter (DASH), a remote-controlled airborne miniature helicopter used to track and detect submarines at a distance.
Private car
Drone is slang for a dull, lifeless person.
Radio call made when a pilot shoots down a drone.
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n.
A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larvae) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.
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A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
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A dull, stupid fellow; a drone.
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A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)
v. i.
To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone.
n.
Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
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The drone of a bagpipe.
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A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz.
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Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
n.
A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.
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A mope; a drone.
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A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.
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Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.
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One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
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A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
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A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
v. i.
To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.
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