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DRONE, n. [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 after living a few weeks, they are killed or driven from the hive. Hence,

2. An idler; a sluggard; one who earns nothing by industry.

3. A humming or low sound, or the instrument of humming.

4. The largest tube of the bag-pipe, which emits a continued deep note.

DRONE, v.i.

1. To live in idleness; as a droning king.

2. To give a low, heavy, dull sound; as the cymbals droning sound.
1913 Definition
Drone (drone)
n.(?)
Drone
[OE. drane a dronebee, AS. dr1913 webster dictionaryn; akin to OS. dr1913 webster dictionaryn, OHG. treno, G. drohne, Dan. drone, cf. Gr. (?) a kind of wasp, dial. Gr. (?) drone. Prob. named fr. the droning sound. Se
  1. 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.

  2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.

    By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

  3. That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
  4. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

    The monotonous drone of the wheel. Longfellow.

  5. A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
  6. To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.

    Where the beetle wheels his droning flight. T. Gray.

  7. To love in idleness; to do nothing.
    "Race of droning kings." Dryden.

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