Definition of drum

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Drum (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout..

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Atabal :: Atabal (n.) A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors..
Monkey :: Monkey (n.) In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs..
Drumble :: Drumble (v. i.) To mumble in speaking.
Tympanist :: Tympanist (n.) One who beats a drum.
Vibrant :: Vibrant (a.) Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc..
Tam-tam :: Tam-tam (n.) A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom.
Gin :: Gin (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Recall :: Recall (n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc..
Frap :: Frap (v. t.) To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum..
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock..
Drumming :: Drumming (n.) The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides..
Drumfish :: Drumfish (n.) Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum..
Monkey :: Monkey (n.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs..
Tymbal :: Tymbal (n.) A kind of kettledrum.
Tempest :: Tempest (n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4..
Rigger :: Rigger (n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
Call :: Call (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty..
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog..
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