Bass drum () The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a. |
Drum (n.) 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 |
Drum (n.) Anything resembling a drum in form |
Drum (n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. |
Drum (n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. |
Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear |
Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed |
Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery |
Drum (n.) See Drumfish. |
Drum (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house |
Drum (n.) A tea party |
Drum (v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks |
Drum (v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks |
Drum (v. i.) To throb, as the heart. |
Drum (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc, |
Drum (v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune. |
Drum (v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum |
Drum (v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum |
Drum major () . |
Drum major () The chief or first drummer of a regiment |
Drum major () The marching leader of a military band. |
Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4. |
Hoisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoist |