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DRUM, n. [G., L.]

1. A martial instrument of music, in form of a hollow cylinder, and covered at the ends with vellum, which is stretched or slackened at pleasure.

2. In machinery, a short cylinder revolving on an axis, generally for the purpose of turning several small wheels, by means of straps passing round its periphery.

3. The drum of the ear, the tympanum, or barrel of the ear; the hollow part of the ear, behind the membrane of the tympanum. The latter is a tense membrane, which closes the external passage of the ear, and receives the vibrations of the air.

DRUM, v.i.

1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; as, to drum on the table.

3. To beat as the heart.

DRUM, v.t. To expel with beat of drum.



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DRUM, n. [G., L.]

1. A martial instrument of music, in form of a hollow cylinder, and covered at the ends with vellum, which is stretched or slackened at pleasure.

2. In machinery, a short cylinder revolving on an axis, generally for the purpose of turning several small wheels, by means of straps passing round its periphery.

3. The drum of the ear, the tympanum, or barrel of the ear; the hollow part of the ear, behind the membrane of the tympanum. The latter is a tense membrane, which closes the external passage of the ear, and receives the vibrations of the air.

DRUM, v.i.

1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; as, to drum on the table.

3. To beat as the heart.

DRUM, v.t. To expel with beat of drum.


DRUM, n. [D. trom, trommel; G. trommel; Sw. trumma; Dan. tromme; Ir. druma; probably from its sound, and the root of rumble, Gr. βρεμω, L. fremo. See Class Rm, No. 10, 11.]

  1. A martial instrument of music, in form of a hollow cylinder, and covered at the ends with vellum, which is stretched or slackened at pleasure.
  2. In machinery, a short cylinder revolving on an axis, generally for the purpose of turning several small wheels, by means of straps passing round its periphery. – Cyc.
  3. The drum of the ear, the tympanum, or barrel of the ear; the hollow part of the ear, behind the membrane of the tympanium. The latter is a tense membrane, which closes the external passage of the ear, and receives the vibrations of the air. – Hooper.
  4. A quantity packed in the form of a drum; as, a drum of figs.
  5. Sheet-iron in the shape of a drum, to receive heat from a stove pipe.

DRUM, v.i.

  1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
  2. To beat with the fingers, as with drum-sticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; as, to drum on the table.
  3. To beat as the heart. – Dryden.

DRUM, v.t.

To expel with beat of drum. – Military phrase.


Drum
  1. 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.

    The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne.

  2. To beat a drum with sticks] to beat or play a tune on a drum.
  3. To execute on a drum, as a tune.
  4. Anything resembling a drum in form

    ; as: (a)
  5. 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.

    Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. W. Irving.

  6. (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
  7. See Drumfish.
  8. To throb, as the heart.

    [R.] Dryden.
  9. (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.
  10. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

    [Archaic]

    Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

    * There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar, as the significant name of each declares.

  11. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
  12. A tea party; a kettledrum.

    G. Eliot.

    Bass drum. See in the Vocabulary. -- Double drum. See under Double.

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Drum

DRUM, noun [G., Latin ]

1. A martial instrument of music, in form of a hollow cylinder, and covered at the ends with vellum, which is stretched or slackened at pleasure.

2. In machinery, a short cylinder revolving on an axis, generally for the purpose of turning several small wheels, by means of straps passing round its periphery.

3. The drum of the ear, the tympanum, or barrel of the ear; the hollow part of the ear, behind the membrane of the tympanum. The latter is a tense membrane, which closes the external passage of the ear, and receives the vibrations of the air.

DRUM, verb intransitive

1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum

2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; as, to drum on the table.

3. To beat as the heart.

DRUM, verb transitive To expel with beat of drum

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