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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Alamellicorn beetle of the family Scarabæidæ, a species of dung-beetle, Geotrypes stercorarius. It is one of the commonest British beetles, less than an inch long, black with a metallic reflection, and is often heard droning through the air toward the close of the summer twilight. Also called dor-beetle, sometimes dor-fly, and provincially in England buzzard-clock.
  2. n. A drone (bee).
  3. n. The cockchafer, Melolontha vulgaris.
  4. n. Also dor-beetle.
  5. n. One of several ground-beetles, species of the family Carabidæ and genus Harpalus. More fully called black dor.
  6. To hoax; humbug; make a fool of; perplex.
  7. n. A trick; a practical joke.
  8. n. A practical joker.
  9. n. A fool.
  10. n. In the nomenclature of the spicular elements of sponges, a monaxial lance-shaped or curved rod, one end of which is sharply pointed while the other has a two- or three-edged blade.
  11. n. An abbreviation of Doric.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying.
  2. n. General term for flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.
  2. n. A trick, joke, or deception.
  3. v. obsolete To make a fool of; to deceive.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora ("humming insect"), from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dher-, *dhrēn- (“bee, hornet, drone”). Related to Middle Low German dorne ("bumblebee"), Middle Dutch dorne ("bumblebee"), Dutch dar ("drone"), Old English drān ("drone"). More at drone. (Wiktionary)

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  • bilby Looking forward to that sonnet. Apr 26, 2011

  • ruzuzu Start with sponge. It's quite a read. Apr 26, 2011

  • yarb I'd like a full lexicon of the spicular elements of sponges, so that I can incorporate as much of it as possible in a sonnet. Apr 26, 2011

  • ruzuzu Yes, but you can't beat Cent. Dict. #10: "In the nomenclature of the spicular elements of sponges, a monaxial lance-shaped or curved rod, one end of which is sharply pointed while the other has a two- or three-edged blade." Apr 26, 2011

  • milosrdenstvi And I wanted a one-syllable word for this in a poem two months ago. Drat. Apr 26, 2011

  • bilby Missile. As in Scud. Apr 25, 2011

  • Wordplayer In Romanian, this is a noun that means "the action of missing something". There is no noun for this in the English language. Apr 25, 2011

  • oroboros Rod in reverse. Nov 2, 2007

  • deliriumslibrarian Roma: longing without object, passion without source, yearning without end. Jun 13, 2007

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