tamboura

[TAMBOUR, 8.] Music : An instrument of the guitar species, with strings of wire struck with a plectrum. The neck is long, and the body, of gourd-shape, is often beautifully ornamented. The tamboura is found in Persia, Turkey, Egypt, and Hindu stan, and it was known to the A yrians and Egyptians under various names. tăm-bôur-gī, s . [Turkish.) A drummer. " Tambourgi ! tambourgi ! thy larum afar Gives hopes to the valiant and promise of war." Byron: Childe Harold , ii. lxxii. tâm-bou-rîne', tam-bou-rin, *tam-bu-rin, *tam-bu-rine, s. [Fr. tambourin , dim in. from tambour a drum, a tambour.] Music : 1. An ancient pulsatile instrument of the drum cla , popular among all European people, but particularly those of the south. The Biscayan and Italian peasantry employ it on every festal occasion. It is formed of a hoop of wood, sometimes of metal, over which is stretched a piece of parchment or skin; the sides of the hoop are pierced with holes, in which are inserted pieces of metal in pairs, called jingles. Small bells are sometimes fastened on to the outer edge of the hoop. It is sounded by being struck with the knuckles, or by drawing the fingers or thumb over the skin, which produces what is called "the roll," a peculiar drone mingled with the jingle of the bells or pieces of metal. "Each her ribboned tambourine Flinging on the mountain sod." Matthew Arnold: Empedocles on Etna , ii. 2. A stage dance formerly popular in France. It was of a lively measure, and accompanied with a pedal ba in imitation of the drone caused by rubbing the thumb over the skin of a tambourine. †tăm-breēt', s. [See def.] Zool.: One of the native Australian names for Ornithorhynchus paradox us . [ORNITHORHYNCHUS.] *tam-bu-rine, *tam-bu-rin, s. [TAMBOURINE.] tăm-bû-rō-nê, s. [Ital.] Music : The military ba -drum. tāme, a . [A.S.tam; cogn. with Dut. tam ; Icel. tamr ; Sw. & Dan. tam ; Ger. zahm . From the same root as Lat. domo to tame; Gr. dam aō ; Sansc. dam =to tame, to be tame.] I. Lit .: Having lost its native wildne and shyne ; accustomed to the presence and society of man; domesticated, domestic, gentle. "He brought thy land a ble ing when he came, He found thee savage, and he left thee tame ." Cowper : Expostulation , 485. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-0792.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0793.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0794.jpg:[blocks in formation] That time, acquaintance, custom, and condition Made tame and most familiar to my nature." tăm'-Ine, tăm'-in-ỹ, tăm-min, tăm-mỹ, s . [Fr. étamine .] [STAMIN.] 1. A thin woolen or worsted stuff, highly glazed. 2. A sieve; a strainer or bolter of hair or cloth. *tăm-is (s silent), *tam-ise, s . [Fr. tamis .] [TEMSE.] IMG:content-0795.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0796.png:[blocks in formation] tăm'-mỹ, tăm-min, s. [TAMINE.] Tăm-mỹ, s. [TOMMY.] 1. To meddle; to be busy or officious; to have to do with anything without fitne or nece ity. "Vain tampering has but fostered his disease; 'Tis desperate." IMG:content-0797.png:[blocks in formation] “And by subornation, and menacing of, and tampering with witne es."-Wood: Fusti Oxon ., i. tămp'-ěr, s . [Eng.tamp; -er.] 1. One who tamps; one who prepares for blasting, by stopping up the hole in which the charge is placed. I. Ordinary Language: 1. A tampion. IMG:content-0798.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-0799.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan. 3. An imbrowning of the skin by exposure to the IMG:content-0800.png:[blocks in formation]