Crossword-Solution: DRONY 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Beetles "wheel their drony flight" in buzzing circles round for a few turns, and are gone; and moths come fluttering about, and often scorch their plumy wings.

But the noise of the argument had awakened the Humming-top, and he began to buzz and hum in such a drony, drowsy fashion, that in sheer terror and dread, the Ball threw himself gallantly into the gap, and promised to tell the first story himself, on condition that he should be allowed to roll softly about the room for the rest of the evening.

Then on Sunday he wishes to know something about the religion of these strange people; so he goes across the street to the King’s Chapel, and finds that it is closed; so he walks down the street in the burning sun to Brattle Street, where he hears a comfortable, drony kind of sermon, which seems to have as composing an effect upon the fifty or a hundred persons who are present as upon himself.

Some, again, fly with a loud buzzing or a drony noise, while others[115] burrow numerous holes in the hearths and out in the fields, and their shrill chirrup is to be heard at night.