Drum ¹

Definition: An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.

Drum ²

Definition: Anything resembling a drum in form

Drum ³

Definition: A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.

Drum ⁴

Definition: A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.

Drum ⁵

Definition: The tympanum of the ear; often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.

Drum ⁶

Definition: One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.

Drum ⁷

Definition: A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

Drum ⁸

Definition: See Drumfish.

Drum ⁹

Definition: A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

Drum ¹⁰

Definition: A tea party; a kettledrum.

Drum ¹¹

Definition: To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

Drum ¹²

Definition: To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

Drum ¹³

Definition: To throb, as the heart.

Drum ¹⁴

Definition: To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; with for.

Drum ¹⁵

Definition: To execute on a drum, as a tune.

Drum ¹⁶

Definition: (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

Drum ¹⁷

Definition: (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.

drum ¹⁸

Definition: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

drum ¹⁹

Definition: a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

drum ²⁰

Definition: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end

drum ²¹

Definition: a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

drum ²²

Definition: the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"

drum ²³

Definition: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

drum ²⁴

Definition: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

drum ²⁵

Definition: play a percussion instrument

drum ²⁶

Definition: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"