Definition of drum

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Drum (n.) A tea party; a kettledrum.

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Conundrum :: Conundrum (n.) A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.
Thrum :: Thrum (v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table..
Vase :: Vase (n.) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum..
Frap :: Frap (v. t.) To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum..
Tempest :: Tempest (n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4..
Uniphonous :: Uniphonous (a.) Having but one sound, as the drum..
Ape :: Ape (n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes..
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..
Rataplan :: Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse..
Drum :: Drum (n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed..
Timbrel :: Timbrel (n.) A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The beat of a drum.
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..
Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation..
Tam-tam :: Tam-tam (n.) A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom.
Drum :: Drum (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..
Conundrum :: Conundrum (n.) A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun..
Drum :: Drum (v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune..
Chamade :: Chamade (n.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
Naker :: Naker (n.) A kind of kettledrum.
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