dronel (dron)

[ the drone of a bee. I am as melancholy as.. the drone of a Lincoln shire bagpipe. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2. If men should ever bee thumming the drone of one plaine Song, it would be a dull Opiat to the most wake full Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 2. In music: (a) A pipe in the bagpipe which gives out a continuous and invariable tone. attention. The harmony of them that pipe in recorders, flutes, and Bp. Bale , Select Works, p. 536. drones. (b) A drone-ba . drone (dron), n. [Early mod. E. also droane; G. drohne, and prob. Dan. drone = Icel. drjōni, a drone; cf. Sw. drönare, a drone, lit. 'droner'); akin to OHG. treno, MHG. trene, tren, G. dial. (Sax., Austr.) trehne, trene, a drone. Cf. Lith. tranni, Gr. (Lacon.) θρῶναξ, a drone, τενθρήνη, τενθρηδών, a kind of wasp or bee, ἀνθρήνη, άνθρη family Geotrypida. drone-cell (drōn's el), n. One of those cells of a honeycomb which are destined for the larvæ of male bees. The eggs are laid in these at a later period than in the worker-cells. drone-fly (dr (drōn'fii), n. A dipterous insect or fly of the family Syrphid a , Eristalis tenax : so called from its resemblance to a drone bee. drone-pipe (drōn'pīp), n. 1. A pipe produ- cing cing a a droning sound;; hence, poetically, the droning hum of an insect. You fell at once into a lower key That's worse - the drone - pipe of a humble-bee. Cowper, Conversation, 1. 330. Specifically-2. The largest tube of a bagpipe, which produces the droning sound; the drone. drongo (drong'gō), g'gō), n. 1. A name given by Le Vaillant, in the form drongeur, to a South African bird afterward known as the musical dron go, Dicrurus music us; then extended to the numerous African, Asiatic, and East Indian fly-catching crow-like birds with long forked tails which compose the family Dicrurida. IMG:content-3180.png:[graphic] IMG:content-3181.png:[graphic] Drongo ( Buchanga atra). They are also called drongo -shrikes. The Bu changa atra of India and the further East is an example.-2. [ cap.] [NL.] The generic name of a Mad a gas can species usually known as Di crurus or Edolius forficatus. In this sense the quasi-Latin form Drongus is found.