An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
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To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…
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To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…
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The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.
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A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss.
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The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b).
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A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.
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A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
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See Tabor.
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A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
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A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
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A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.
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See Tam-tam.
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A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal s…
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Gone.
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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
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The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
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A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…
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A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bo…
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One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.
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One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.
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One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.
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One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.
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In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effec…
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In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effec…
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The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…
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A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
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The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, bl…
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To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…
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Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.
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One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
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A drum.
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