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verb.) C. As subst.: The act or habit of reading or talking in a droning, monotonous manner; prosine , monotonous language. "Cant and droning supply the place of sense and rea son in the language of men."- Swift : Tale of a Tub. *drōn'-ish, a. [Eng. dron(e); -ish.] Like a drone; idle, sluggish, lazy, slow. "They would be apt to waxe -Barrow: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 15. dronish and lazy." *drōn'-Ish-ly, adv . [Eng. dronish : -ly .] In a dronish, lazy, or idle manner; idly, sluggishly; like a drone. *drōn-Ish-ne , s. [Eng. dronish: -ne .] The quality or state of being dronish; lazine , idlene , sluggishne . "He must not be tame neither, nor sink into an enervated dullne , or flaccid dronishne of gesture."- E ay on the Action for the Pulpit (1753), p. 65. *droń-kle, v . t . & i. [DRINKLE.] 1. Trans.: To drown, to overwhelm. "In a water stampe he was dronkled fleand." Langtoft, p. 288. 2. In trans.: To be drowned or overwhelmed. "The proude kyng Pharaon dronkled." Langtoft , p. 289. drōn'-ỹ, a . [Eng. dron(e); -y.] *1. Like a drone; sluggish, lazy, idle. 2. Of a droning character in sound. droôl, v . i . [A dialectal variant of drivel (q. v.).] To drivel, to slaver. ( Provincial and American .) "His mouth drooling with texts." -T. Parker: Life, P. 159.