drummock

[Etym. doubtful.] A mixture of meal and water. Drum-mond, s . [A proper name, see compound.] Drummond-light, s. A light invented by Lieutenant Drummond, about 1826, to supply a deficiency which was found to exist in the means of making distant stations visible from each other. It is made by exposing a small ball of quicklime to the action of the oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe, or the lime may be placed in the flame of a spirit-lamp fed by a jet of pure oxygen gas. Drummond's apparatus was so constructed that the lamp fed itself automatically with spirit and with oxygen, supply *drum'-ble (1), v. i. [A freq. or dim in. from drone ing itself with balls of lime as they were gradually IMG:content-0588.png:[blocks in formation] "Grey-beard drumbling over a discourse." Nashe: Have with You to Saffron Walden. 3. To sound like a drum. "Violins, strike up aloud, Let the nimble hand belabor The whistling pipe and drumbling tabor." Drayton: Muses' Elysium; Nymphal 8.