Drollery

[Fr. drôlerie.] Sportive tricks; buffoonery; comical stories; gestures, tricks, manners, or antics exhibited to raise mirth; jocular sport. "The rich drollery of She Stoops to Conquer.'" - Macaulay. Droll'ingly, adv . In a comical and facetious manner. Droll'ish, a. Somewhat droll or comical. Drôme, ( drome ,) a river of France, rising in the ValDrome in the Upper Alps; after flowing 60 m., it joins the Rhone 12 m. from Valence. -A S.E. dep. of France, having N. and E. Isère, E. the Hautes and Ba es Alpes, S. Vaucluse, and W. Ardêche, from which it is separated by the Rhone. Area , 2,519 sq.m. Rivers, the Rhone, the Isère, and the Drôme, the latter not navigable. Soil , about 100,000 hectares of fertile land, the rest indifferent. Surface , generally mountainous. Prod. Silk and grapes. Min . Iron, coal, copper, lead, granite and marble. Lat. between 44° 9' and 45° 20′ N., Lon. between 4° 38′ and 5° 45′ Ε.