Word Meanings - MOPUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mope; a drone. Swift.

Related words: (words related to MOPUS)

• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• SWIFTLY
  In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
• SWIFTFOOT
  Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.
• SWIFT
  to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
• DRONE
  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
• DRONE BEE
  The male of the honeybee; a drone.
• DRONE FLY
  A dipterous insect , resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.
• DRONEPIPE
  One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
• SQUADRONED
  Formed into squadrons, or squares. Milton.
• LADRONE
  A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.
• QUINHYDRONE
  A green crystalline substance formed by the union of quinone with hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone.
• PADRONE
  1. A patron; a protector. 2. The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean. 3. A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.
• HYDRONEPHROSIS
  An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.