druidism (droidizm)

[F. druid is me Sp. Pg. druidismo; as druid +-ism.] The religion of the druids; the doctrines, rites, and ceremonies of the sacerdotal caste of the ancient IMG:content-0030.png:[blocks in formation] druid-stone (drö'id-stōn), п. Same as gray wether. drum1 (drum), n. [Early mod. E. also drum me; = Dan. tromme = Sw. trumma (cf. Ir. Gael. drum a, = G. tromme, dial. trumme, trumm, tromm, dromm, late MHG. trumme, trumbe, drum be, drum me, trum , a drum (also in dim. form: Dan. tromle = Sw. trumla , trommel = G. trom mel , formerly also drummel , MHG. trummel , trumpel , drompel , trumel , a drum); orig. identical with MHG. trumme, trumbe, trumba , trump a , a trump, trumpet: see trump1 and trum pet1. It thus appears that drum1 and trump1 are ult. identical, though applied to unlike instruments. The diverse use is prob. due to the (supposed) imitative origin of the name. drum1, v.] 1. A musical instrument of the percu ive cla , consisting of a hollow wooden or metallic body and a tightly stretched head of membrane which is struck with a stick. Three See The drummes crie dub a dub. Gas coigne, Flowers. Your nether party fire must, Then beat a flying drum . And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums , are beating Funeral marches to the grave. drum1 (drum), v.; pret. and pp. drummed , ppr. drumming. [= D. trommen = Dan. tromme = Sw. trumma , drum; also freq. E. drumble , q.v.; from the noun, but felt to be in part imitative. See drum1 , n ., and cf. thrum2 .] I. in trans. 1. Το beat a drum; beat or play a tune on a drum.- 2. To beat rhythmically or regularly with the fingers or something else, as if using drum- barrel of a crane or windla . (c) A cylinder on which wire is wound, as in wire-drawing. (d) The grinding cyl- inder or cone of some mills. (e) The cast-iron case which holds the coiled spring of a spring car-brake. (f) A cir cular radiator for steam or hot air; astove-drum or steam- drum. (g) In water-heaters or steam-boilers, a chamber into which heated water is made to flow in order to afford room for other bodies of water from parts of the boiler not so near the fire. (h) A steam-tight cask in which printed 3. To beat, as the heart; throb. He drummed upon his desk with his ruler and med i- tated. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 274. There was no sound but the drumming of the General's fingers on his sword-hilt. G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 281. His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye, His eye commends the leading to his hand. 4. To attract recruits, as by the sound of the drum; hence, in the United States, to sue for partizans, customers, etc.: followed by for.- 5. To sound like a drum; resound. 4. In a vase or similar ve el, that part of the body which approximates to a cylindrical form. -5. In an at . and zool .: (a) The tympanum or middle ear. (b) The tracheal tympanum or labyrinth of a bird. See tympanum , 4. (c) One of the tympanic organs seated in two deep cavities on the first abdominal segment of cer- tain Homoptera , and said to be used in produ- 6. To produce a sound resembling drumming: cing sounds. Kirby . (d) The large hollow hyoid bone of a howling monkey. See Mycetinæ.-6. It is done by quivering the exp expanded feathers This indeed makes a noise, and drums in popular ears. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici. One by one the chief actors in it [the prosecution of the Whisky Ring) were called before the lines, despoiled of their insignia, and drummed out of the administration N. A. Rev. , CXXIII. 321. camp. 3. To summon as by beat of drum. But, to confound such time, That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud As his own state, and ours 'tis to be chid As we rate boys. Shak ., A. and C., i. 4. 4. To force upon the attention by continual iteration; din: as, to drum something into one's ears. To drum up, to a emble as by beat of drum; a emble or collect by influence and exertion: as, to drum up recruits or customers. The whistling pipe and drumbling tabor. Drayton , Nymphidia, viii. 2. To mumble. Hall i well . drumble2+ (drum'bl), v. i. [Cf. drumblel and dumble1.] To drone; be sluggish. drum in, drumine (drum'in), n. [ Drum ( mon- dii ) (see def.) + -in2, -ine2.] An alkaloid from Euphorbia Drummondii , said to produce local anesthesia like cocaine. drumlin (drum'lin), n. Same as drum2 , 2. drumly (drum'li), a. [E. dial. and Sc., also drumbled. Cf. droumy . Perhaps altered from equiv. ME. drubly , drobly , turbid, muddy, con- nected with drublen, droblen , trouble, make turbid, as water, perhaps allied to equiv. droven (see drove4 ), or po ibly a mixture of droven with equiv. trublen , troblen , trouble. Cf. drum- ble2, and LG. drummelig, drummig , musty, ap- plied to grain, bread, etc.] 1. Turbid; full of grounds, dregs, or sediment; dreggy; muddy; holding foreign matter in mechanical solution. Draw me some water out of this spring. Madam, it is all foul, it is all drumly , black, muddy. Wodroephe, Fr. and Eng. Gram., p. 210. Then bouses drumly German water, To mak' himsel' look fair and fatter. drum2 (drum), n. [ druim , also drum an, the back, a ridge, summit.] 1. A 2. Troubled; gloomy. ridge; a hill. Drum enters into the composition of many Celtic place-names, especially in Ireland and Scot- land, as Drumcondra, Drum gla , Drum sheugh, Drum- lanrig, Drumoak ; and it is frequently found alone as the name of a farm, an estate, a village, etc. of sand, gravel, and boulders: a name given by Irish geologists to elevations of this kind be- lieved to have been the result of glacial agen- cies. See eskar , horseback , and kame. Also called drumlin . It [the glacial drift) is apt to occur in long ridges (" drums " or drumlins ) which run in the general direc- tion of the rock striation that is, in the path of the ice movement. Geikie. 2. One who solicits custom; a traveling sales- man; a commercial traveler. [U. S.] The energy and wiles of busine drummers . IMG:content-0031.jpg:[blocks in formation]