Drone

(dron.) [A. S. dræn.] (Zool.) The male of the work in gor honey-bee; taking its name from the monotonous ne of its hum. See BEE.-(Mus.) (Called also DRONE-PIPE.) The largest tube in the bag-pipe, being that which gives forth a sustained deep sound. Droop Mountain, in W. Virginia, Greenbrier co., was the locality where was fought a smart skirmish, Nov. 6, 1862, bet. 5,000 Nationals, under Gen. Averill, and a Confederate force commanded by Gen. W. S. Jackson, in which the latter lost 300 men and 3 guns; 100 men scored the Union lo . [s. 303]