Difference between revisions of "Drum"

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To throb, as the heart. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; - with for. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' n.) A tea party; a kettledrum. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound. </p> <p> '''(12):''' ''' (''' n.) See Drumfish. </p> <p> '''(13):''' ''' (''' n.) [[Anything]] resembling a drum in form </p> <p> '''(14):''' ''' (''' n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. </p> <p> '''(15):''' ''' (''' n.) The tympanum of the ear; - often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane. </p> <p> '''(16):''' ''' (''' n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. </p> <p> '''(17):''' ''' (''' n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. </p>

''''' drum ''''' τύμπανον <i> ''''' túmpanon ''''' </i> <i> ''''' tō̄ph ''''' </i>