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Drum :: Drum (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for..

Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d)..

Taborine :: Taborine (n.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor..

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

Rigger :: Rigger (n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

Roll :: Roll (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

Cage :: Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

Ruff :: Ruff (v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum..

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

Drummond Light :: Drummond light () A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light..

Assembly :: Assembly (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

Quadrumanous :: Quadrumanous (a.) Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse..

Drum :: Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane..

Tympanist :: Tympanist (n.) One who beats a drum.

Uniphonous :: Uniphonous (a.) Having but one sound, as the drum..

Drum :: Drum (v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc..

Drumhead :: Drumhead (n.) The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.

Kettledrum :: Kettledrum (n.) A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it..

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