Drum

drum, n. (31ns.) A hollow cylinder or hemisphere, upon which vellum is stretched, to be beaten with a stick. (Mil.) A drummer. Anything drum-shaped, as a sheet-iron radiator, receiving heat from a stove-pipe; a cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. (AnatA The tympanum or barrel of the ear. (Arch.) The upright part of a cupola; also the bell-formed part of the Corinthian and composite capitals. (Meek.) A cylinder revolving on an axis, for turning wheels by means of straps around it. (Ichth.) A fish which makes a drumming or grunting sound under water. — v. i. [drummed (drumd), drumming. ] To beat on a drum, beat with the fingers, as with drum-sticks; to beat, as the heart, throb; to go about to gather recruits, secure partisans, customers, etc. — v. t. To execute on a drum, as a tune; with out, to expel with beat of drum; with up, to a emble by beat of drum; without up, to solicit the custom of. — Drum'mer, n. One who beats, etc.; a traveling salesman. — Drum'ming, n. Act of beating (a drum); act of striking repeatedly with the ends of the fingers, etc.; noise made by a partridge by beating his wings upon his sides. — Druni's tick, n. Stick for beating a drum: upper joint of a fowl's leg, shaped like, etc. Drunk, Drunkard - Farrier 131