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[ Fr.timbre =a crest, a helmet.] Heraldry: 1. A row or rank of ermine in a nobleman's coat. 2. The helmet, miter, coronet, ., when placed over the arms in a complete achievement. difference is attained in various ways. Some of the pipes have wooden mouth-pieces, others metallic mouth-pieces, reed pipes, reeds of varying qualities, tubes of varying proportions and shapes, to imitate the peculiar sounds of the various instruments after which they are named, as flute, trumpet, ba oon, oboe, . tim'-brel, *tim'-brell, *tym-brel, *tym-byre, s . [A dim in. from Mid. Eng. timbre , from Fr. timbre ; O. Fr. tymbre a timbrel, from Lat. tympanum = a drum, from Gr. tympan on =a kettledrum.] [TYMPANUM.] Music: An instrument of music; a kind of drum, tabor, or tambourine. It has been in use from the earliest times (Exod. xv. 20). It is now known as a tambourine. "Field, town, and city with his name do ring; The tender virgins to their timbrels sing Ditties of him." Drayton: David and Goliah. *timbrel-girl, s. A tim be stere (q. v.). "She saw. the hateful timbrel - girls , followed by the rabble, and weaving their strange dances toward the spot."-Lytton: Last of the Barons, ch. iii.