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Tympanize :: Tympanize (v. i.) To drum.

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression..

Tympan :: Tympan (n.) A drum.

Tympani :: Tympani (pl. ) of Tympan.

Tympanums :: Tympanums (pl. ) of Tympanu.

Tympanize :: Tympanize (v. t.) To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum..

Columella :: Columella (n.) A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear..

Tympanic :: Tympanic (n.) The tympanic bone.

Tympano :: Tympano (n.) A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.

Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) The rest for the tympan when raised.

Malleus :: Malleus (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far..

Tympanohyal :: Tympanohyal (n.) The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man..

Tympan :: Tympan (n.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed..

Meteorism :: Meteorism (n.) Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.

Tympanic :: Tympanic (a.) Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane..

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.

Eardrum :: Eardrum (n.) The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.

Fenestra :: Fenestra (n.) A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear..

Tympanitis :: Tympanitis (n.) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.

Tympany :: Tympany (n.) Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness..

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