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

Unmuffle :: Unmuffle (v. t.) To remove the muffling of, as a drum..

Bass Drum :: Bass drum () The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a..

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

Tabor :: Tabor (v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum..

Drum :: Drum (n.) Anything resembling a drum in for.

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle..

Capstan :: Capstan (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket..

Fourhanded :: Fourhanded (a.) Having four hands; quadrumanous.

Moulinet :: Moulinet (n.) The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like..

Band :: Band (v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals..

Squinsy :: Squinch (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon..

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..

Quadrumane :: Quadrumane (n.) One of the Quadrumana.

Whim :: Whim (n.) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey..

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

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..

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..

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

Quadrumana :: Quadrumana (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone..

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