Part 3490

<h1>Dronte</h1> <Xpage=456>

<hw>Dron"te</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The dodo.</def>

<h1>Drony</h1> <Xpage=456>

<hw>Dron"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.</def>

<h1>Drool</h1> <Xpage=456>

<hw>Drool</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Drooled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drooling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Contr. fr. <ets>drivel</ets>.]</ety> <def>To drivel, or drop saliva; <as>as, the child <ex>drools</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>His mouth <b>drooling</b> with texts. <i> T. Parker.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Droop</h1> <Xpage=456>

<hw>Droop</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Drooped</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drooping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Icel. <ets>dr<?/pa</ets>; akin to E. <ets>drop</ets>. See <er>Drop</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def> "The purple flowers <i>droop</i>." "Above her <i>drooped</i> a lamp."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<blockquote>I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to <b>droop</b> and languish. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; <as>as, her spirits <ex>drooped</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>I'll animate the soldier's <b>drooping</b> courage. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.</def> "Then day <i>drooped</i>."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<h1>Droop</h1> <Xpage=456>

<hw>Droop</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To let droop or sink.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>M. Arnold.</i>

<blockquote>Like to a withered vine That <b>droops</b> his sapless branches to the ground. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Droop</h1> <Xpage=456>

<hw>Droop</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A drooping; <as>as, a <ex>droop</ex> of the eye</as>.</def>

<h1>Drooper</h1> <Xpage=456>

<hw>Droop"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, droops.</def>

<h1>Droopingly</h1> <Xpage=456>

<hw>Droop"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a drooping manner.</def>

<h1>Drop</h1> <Xpage=456>

<hw>Drop</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>drope</ets>, AS. <ets>dropa</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>dropo</ets>, D. <ets>drop</ets>, OHG. <ets>tropo</ets>, G. <ets>tropfen</ets>, Icel. <ets>dropi</ets>, Sw. <ets>droppe</ets>; and Fr. AS. <ets>dre\'a2pan</ets> to drip, drop; akin to OS. <ets>driopan</ets>, D. <ets>druipen</ets>, OHG. <ets>triofan</ets>, G. <ets>triefen</ets>, Icel. <ets>drj<?/pa</ets>. Cf. <er>Drip</er>, <er>Droop</er>.]</ety>