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Tempest :: Tempest (n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4..

Rappel :: Rappel (n.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.

Thrum :: Thrum (v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table..

Lag :: Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine..

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

Rattle :: Rattle (n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum..

Bang :: Bang (v. t.) To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it..

Reveille :: Reveille (n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging..

Oxycalcium :: Oxycalcium (a.) Of or pertaining to oxygen and calcium; as, the oxycalcium light. See Drummond light..

Drummer :: Drummer (n.) A California sculpin.

Drumble :: Drumble (v. i.) To mumble in speaking.

Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The beat of a drum.

Gin :: Gin (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim..

Winch :: Winch (n.) An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass..

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..

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..

Humdrum :: Humdrum (a.) Monotonous; dull; commonplace.

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

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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