| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| drove | imp. | of Drive, of Drive., A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body., Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove., A crowd of people in motion., A road for driving cattle; a driftway., A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land., A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; — called also drove chisel., The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; — called also drove work. |
| drock | noun | A water course. |
| droil | verb i. | To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod., A drudge., Mean labor; toil. |
| droit | noun | A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right. |
| droll | superl. | Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange., One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew., Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like., To jest; to play the buffoon., To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole., To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. |
| drome | noun | The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher. |
| drone | verb i. | The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee., One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard., 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., A humming or deep murmuring sound., A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition., To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound., To love in idleness; to do nothing. |
| drony | adjective | Like a drone; sluggish; lazy. |
| drool | verb i. | To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools. |
| droop | verb i. | To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like., To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped., To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline., To let droop or sink., A drooping; as, a droop of the eye. |
| dropt | of Drop, imp. & p. p. of Drop, v. | |
| dross | noun | The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement., Rust of metals., Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse. |
| drovy | adjective | Turbid; muddy; filthy. |
| drown | verb i. | To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water., To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate., To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid., To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound. |