cumin 
principal forms are used: (1) cylindrical, with one heart 
and an open bottom, usually called a tambourine or 
Egyptian drum ; (2) hemispherical, with one head, usually 
cal'led a kettledrum; (3) cylindrical, with two heads, one 
of which can be struck, as in a side-drum or snare-drum, 
or both of which can be struck, as in the bass drum. All 
these forms are used to some extent in orchestral music, 
1782 
red-bass, sea-bass. See cut under redfish. Bass drum, 
a musical instrument, the largest of the drum family, 
having a cylindrical body and two heads of membrane, 
the tension of which may be altered by hoops. It ia struck 
with a soft-headed stick. It is commonly used in mili- 
tary bands, and occasionally in full orchestras. Formerly 
alled Unvjdrum. Beat or tuck of drum. Seedcai. 
but the kettledrum only is important, because it alone can Circulating drum, in water-heaters or steam-boilers, a 
be perfectly tuned. Orchestral drums are generally used ~' 
in pairs, and tuned to different pitches. The third form 
in all its varieties is much used in military music, prin- 
cipally to emphasize rhythm. 
I would wish them rather to lie chosen out of all partes 
of the realme, either by discretion of wise men thereunto 
appoynted, or by lott, or by the drumme, as was the old 
use in sending foorthe of colonyes. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
The drummes crie dub a dub. Gascoigne, Flowers. 
Your nether party fire must, 
Then beat a flying drum. 
Battle of Philiphaugh (Child's Ballads, VII. 134). 
, , 
chamber disposed to receive a flow of heated water in 
order to afford room near the heating surface for other 
bodies of water from parts of the boiler remote from the 
fire. Double drum, a former name of the bass drum. 
Drum of cod, a large cask or hogshead, containing from 
600 to 1,000 pounds, into which the cod are packed tight- 
ly and pressed down with a jack-screw and shipped. 
Drum of the ear. Same as tympanum. Muffled drum, 
a drum having the cord which is used for carrying the 
drum over the shoulder passed twice through the cords 
which cross the lower diameter of the drum, to prevent a 
sharp sound, or to render the sound grave and solemn. 
And our hearts, though stout and brave, 
Still, like muffled drums, are beating 
Funeral marches to the grave. 
Longfellow, Psalm of Life. 
2. In arch. : (a) The solid part of the Corinthian 
and Composite capital, otherwise called bell, 
vase, or basket, (b) One of the blocks of nearly drum 1 (drum), v. ; pret. and pp. drummed, ppr. 
cylindrical form of which the shafts of many drumming. [= D. trommen = Dan. tromme = 
columns are constructed, (c) An upright mem- Sw. trumma, drum ; also f req. E. drumble, q. v. ; 
ber under or above a dome. 3. In much., a from the noun, but felt to be in part imitative, 
term applied to various contrivances resem- See drum 1 , ., and cf. thrum^."\ I. intrant. 1. To 
bling a drum in shape. Specifically (a) A cylin- beat a drum ; beat or play a tune on a drum. 
der revolving on an axis for the purpose of turning wheels 2. To beat rhythmically or regularly with the 
by means of belts or bands passing round it. (6) The fi nge rs or something else, as if using drum- 
nnrivl nf pi-ntip nr wfnnnu fr\ A nvlfnilai' rm wnfon 
barrel of a crane or windlass, (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. (/) A cir- 
cular radiator for steam or hot air ; a stove-drum or steam- 
drum. (<;) 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. (A) A steam-tight cask in which printed 
fabrics are submitted to the action of steam to fix the col- 
ors, (t) A washing-tub for cleaning rags in paper-making, 
(j) A doffer in a carding-machine. 
4. Ill a vase or similar vessel, that part of the 
sticks: as, to drum on the table. 
He drummed upon his desk with his ruler and medi- 
tated. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 274. 
Tiiere was no sound but the drumming oi the General's 
fingers on his sword-hilt. 
G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 281. 
3. To beat, as the heart ; throb. 
His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye, 
His eye commends the leading to his hand. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 436. 
TIlis indeed makes a noise, and drums in popular ears. 
sir T - Sr urne , Religio Medici. 
body which approximates to a cylindrical form. f To attract recruits, as by the sound of the 
5. In anat. and zool. : (a) The tympanum drum ! hence > m the United States, to sue for 
or middle ear. (6) The tracheal tympanum or Partizans, customers, etc. : followed by for. 
labyrinth of a bird. See tympanum, 4. (c) One 5 - To sound llke a drum ! resound. 
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 said of partridges, blackcock, and other birds, 
bone of a howling monkey. See Mycetince. 6. It is done by quivering the expanded feathers 
A membrane drawn over a round frame, used of the wings, 
fortestingthedelicateedgesof eye-instruments. The bird [snipe] never drummed except when on the 
7. A receptacle having the form of a drum, stoop, and whenever it performed this manoeuvre the 
drum ot figs. 8. Milit., a party accompanied them* and quivered with a ra^id.Tremuloufmotio^tnat 
by a drum sent under a flag of truce to confer quite blurred their outlines.. 
with the enemy. 
I believe I told you of Lord John Drummond sending a 
drum to Wade to propose a cartel. 
J. G. Wood, Out of Doors, p. 171. 
II. trans. 1 . To perform on a drum, as a tune. 
2. Milit., to expel formally and accompany 
Walpole, Letters, II. 2. in depar ture with the beat of the drum: often 
9f. [With allusion to drumming up recruits.] used figuratively, and usually followed by out: 
A fashionable and crowded evening party, at as, the disgraced soldier was drummed out of the 
which card-playing appears to have been the regiment, 
chief attraction; a rout. The more riotous of 
such assemblies were styled drum-majors. 
They were all three to go together to the opera, and 
thence to Lady Thomas Hatchet's drum. 
Fielding, Tom Jones. 
All your modern entertainments, routs, drums, or as- 
semblies. Goldsmith, The Goddess of Silence. 
10. An afternoon tea. Also called kettledrum, 
with a punning allusion to tea-kettle. 11. In 
ichth., a name of several sciaanoid fishes: so 
called from the drumming noise they make, 
said to be due, in part at least, to the grinding 4 - To force u P on tne attention by continual 
of the pharyngeal bones upon each other. () iteration; din: as, to drum something into one's 
The salt-water drum, Pogoniaa chromis, the largest of the ears. To drum up, to assemble as by beat of drum ; 
"'"JB, ranging from 20 to nearly 100 pounds In weight, assemble or collect by influence and exertion : as, to drum 
up recruits or customers. 
drum 2 (drum), n. [< Ir. and Gael, druim, also 
druman, the back, a ridge, summit.] 1. A 
ridge; a hill. Drum enters into the composition of 
many Celtic place-names, especially in Ireland and Scot- 
land, as Drwmcondra, ZJrwmglass, .DrMmsheugh, Drum- 
lanrig, Drumo&k ; and it is frequently found alone as the 
name of a farm, an estate, a village, etc. 
Specifically 2. A long narrow ridge or mound 
of sand, gravel, and boulders : a name given by 
Irish geologists to elevations of this kind be- 
A mmet proved unworthv was ttrmnmed mL 
Lowell, Tempora Mutantur. 
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 
camp. N. A. Rev., CXXIII. 321. 
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. 
Salt-water Drum (Pogonias ehromis). 
lieved to have been the result of glacial agen- 
Also 
of a silvery-gray color when adult, and with numerous e i es - See eskar, horseback, and kame. 
?vi e ,?" * chin ' U ra "Kes along the Atlantic coast called drumlin. 
of the United States from Florida to Massachusetts It 
!t is an inhabitantof the great lakes.and of the ' MUsissip. 
P'nyer and its larger tributaries. Also called sheepshrad. The long parallel ridges, or "sowbacks" and drums, 
.e : branded drum, or beardless drum, Scicena ocellata, as they are termed, . . . invariably coincide in direction 
the redflsh of the south Atlantic and Gulf States. It is with the valleys or straths in which they lie 
;ccogmzed by the black spot margined with light color Geikie, Ice Age, p. 17. 
ro-E^MWfflttEStfKS drum-armature (drum'ar"ma-tur), . A dy- 
10 pounds in weight, but sometimes attaining upward of namo-armature constructed so as to resemble 
40 pounds. Also called oryan-Juh, red-horse, spotted-bass, a drum in form. 
drummer 
drumbelo (drum'be-16), . [E. dial. : see drum- 
ble 2 , r.] A dull, heavy fellow. 
drumbleH (drum'bl), r. i. [Appar. freq. of 
drum, v., after D. trommelen = G. trommehi = 
Dan. tromle = Sw. trumla, drum (see drum, v.); 
but perhaps in part of other origin. Cf. drum- 
ble'*.~\ 1. To sound like a drum. 
The whistling pipe and drumbling tabor. 
Drayton, Nymphidia, viii. 
2. To mumble. Halliwell. 
drumble' 2 t (drum'bl), v. i. [Cf. drumble^ and 
dumble^-."] To drone ; be sluggish. 
Go take up these clothes here, quickly ; . . . look, how 
youdrmWe. Shak., M. W. of W., iii. :i. 
drumble-drone (drum'bl-dron), n. [E. dial, 
also drumble-drane ; < drumble + drone; cf . dunt- 
Uedore.'} 1. A drone. 2. A bumblebee. 
3. A dor-beetle. Kingsley. 
drumblert (drum'bler), n. [< MD. drommeler, a 
kind of ship (Kilian). Cf. MD. D. drommeler, a 
man of square and compact build, < drommel, 
things packed close together, < drom, a thread, 
= E. thrum 1 , q. v.] A kind of ship. 
She was immediatly assaulted by diuers English pinas- 
ses, hoyes, and drumblers. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 001. 
drum-call (drum'kal), w. In milit. music, a call, 
signal, or command given upon the drum. 
drum-curb (drum'kerb), n. A wooden or iron 
cylinder set in the opening of a shaft, at the 
beginning of its construction, to sustain the 
lining. The earth is cut away under the edges of the 
drum, and as it settles down courses of brick are added to 
the lining at the top. 
drum-cylinder (drum 'sil"in-der), n. In a print- 
ing-press, a large cylinder making one revolu- 
tion to each impression. See cylinder-press. 
driimflsh (drum'fish), n. Same as drumi, 11. 
drum-guard (drum'gard), n. A device on a 
threshing-machine to prevent the operator, 
while feeding it, from falling into the throat, 
the feeder being at the top : used only on Eng- 
lish machines. 
drumhead (drum'hed), n. 1. The membrane 
stretched upon a drum, by striking which the 
tone is produced. Its tension and the pitch of the 
tone are determined by rings or hoops fitted round the 
edge of the drum-body. 
2. The top part of a capstan, which is pierced 
with a number of holes to receive the ends of 
the levers or bars employed to turn it round. 
See capstan. 3. In anat., the membrana tym- 
pani. 4. A variety of cabbage having a large 
rounded or flattened head Drumhead court 
martial. See court martial, under court. 
drumin, drumine (drum'in), n. [< Drum(mou- 
dii) (see def.) + -itft, -ine 2 .] An alkaloid from 
Euphorbia Drummondii, said to produce local 
anesthesia like cocaine. 
drumlin (drum'lin), n. Same as drum*, 2. 
drumly (drum'li), a. [E. dial, and So., also 
drumbled. Cf. droumy. Perhaps altered from 
equiv. ME. drubly, drably, turbid, muddy, con- 
nected with drublen, droblen, trouble, make 
turbid, as water, perhaps allied to equiv. droren 
(see drove*), or possibly a mixture of droven 
with equiv. trublen, troblen, trouble. Cf. drum- 
ble%, 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. 
Bums, The Twa Dogs. 
2. Troubled; gloomy. 
Dismal grew his countenance, 
And druwlie grew his ee. 
The Daemon Lover (Child's Ballads, I. 203). 
drum-major (drain'mS/jor), n. 1. The chief 
or first drummer of a regiment. 2. One who 
directs the evolutions of a band or drum-corps 
in marching. [U.S.] 3f. A riotous evening 
assembly. See drum 1 , 9. 
drummer (drum'er), n. 1. One who plays the 
drum ; especially, one who beats time on the 
drum for military exercises and marching. 
We caried with vs a fifer & a drummer. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 437. 
2. One who solicits custom ; a traveling sales- 
man; a commercial traveler. [U. S.] 
The energy and wiles of business drummer*. 
The Crntiirii, XXVIII. 8S1. 
3. A local name of a large West Indian cock- 
roach, Blalla gif/antfa, which, in old frame 
houses, makes a noise at night, by knocking 
