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1. Drum
   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.
2. Drum
   A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. "Not unaptly styled a drum , from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment."
3. Drum
   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.
4. Drum
   A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
5. Drum
   A tea party; a kettledrum.
6. Drum
   (Mus) 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. "The drums cry bud-a-dub."
7. Drum
   Anything resembling a drum in form
8. Drum
   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.
9. Drum
   (Zoöl) See Drumfish.
10. Drum
    The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
11. Drum
    To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
12. Drum
    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. "Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair."
13. Drum
    To execute on a drum, as a tune.
14. Drum
    To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
15. Drum
    To throb, as the heart.

1. (n) drum
   A musical instrument of the percussive class, consisting of a hollow wooden or metallic body and a tightly stretched head of membrane which is struck with a stick. Three principal forms are used: cylindrical, with one head and an open bottom, usually called a tambourine or Egyptian drum;
2. (n) drum
   In arch.: The solid part of the Corinthian and Composite capital, otherwise called bell, vase, or basket.
3. (n) drum
   One of the blocks of nearly cylindrical form of which the shafts of many columns are constructed.
4. (n) drum
   An upright member under or above a dome.
5. (n) drum
   In machinery, a term applied to various contrivances resembling a drum in shape.
6. (n) drum
   Specifically— A cylinder revolving on an axis for the purpose of turning wheels by means of belts or bands passing round it.
7. (n) drum
   The barrel of a crane or windlass.
8. (n) drum
   A cylinder on which wire is wound, as in wire-drawing.
9. (n) drum
   The grinding cylinder or cone of some mills.
10. (n) drum
    The cast-iron case which holds the coiled spring of a spring car-brake.
11. (n) drum
    A circular radiator for steam or hot air; a stove-drum or steam-drum.
12. (n) 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.
13. (n) drum
    A steam-tight cask in which printed fabrics are submitted to the action of steam to fix the colors.
14. (n) drum
    A washing-tub for cleaning rags in paper-making.
15. (n) drum
    A doffer in a carding-machine.
16. (n) drum
    In a vase or similar vessel, that part of the body which approximates to a cylindrical form.
17. (n) drum
    In anatomy and zoöl.: The tympanum or middle ear.
18. (n) drum
    The tracheal tympanum or labyrinth of a bird. See tympanum, 4.
19. (n) drum
    One of the tympanic organs seated in two deep cavities on the first abdominal segment of certain Homoptera, and said to be used in producing sounds.
20. (n) drum
    The large hollow hyoid bone of a howling monkey. See Mycetinæ.
21. (n) drum
    A membrane drawn over a round frame, used for testing the delicate edges of eye-instruments.
22. (n) drum
    A receptacle having the form of a drum, or the quantity packed in such receptacle: as, a drum of figs.
23. (n) drum
    Milit., a party accompanied by a drum sent under a flag of truce to confer with the enemy.
24. (n) drum
    A fashionable and crowded evening party, at which card-playing appears to have been the chief attraction; a rout. The more riotous of such assemblies were styled drum-majors.
25. (n) drum
    An afternoon tea. Also called kettledrum, with a punning allusion to tea-kettle.
26. (n) drum
    In ichthyology, a name of several sciænoid fishes: so called from the drumming noise they make, said to be due, in part at least, to the grinding of the pharyngeal bones upon each other. The salt-water drum, Pogonias chromis, the largest of the Sciænidæ, ranging from 20 to nearly 100 pounds in weight, of a silvery-gray color when adult, and with numerous barbels on the chin. It ranges along the Atlantic coast of the United States from Florida to Massachusetts. It feeds much upon shell-fish, and is very destructive to oyster-beds.
27. drum
    To beat a drum; beat or play a tune on a drum.
28. drum
    To beat rhythmically or regularly with the fingers or something else, as if using drum sticks: as, to drum on the table.
29. drum
    To beat, as the heart; throb.
30. drum
    To attract recruits, as by the sound of the drum; hence, in the United States, to sue for partizans, customers, etc.: followed by for.
31. drum
    To sound like a drum; resound.
32. drum
    To produce a sound resembling drumming: said of partridges, blackcock, and other birds. It is done by quivering the expanded feathers of the wings.
33. drum
    To perform on a drum, as a tune.
34. drum
    Milit., to expel formally and accompany in departure with the beat of the drum: often used figuratively, and usually followed by out: as, the disgraced soldier was drummed out of the regiment.
35. drum
    To summon as by beat of drum.
36. drum
    To force upon the attention by continual iteration; din: as, to drum something into one's ears.
37. (n) drum
    A ridge; a hill. Drum enters into the composition of many Celtic place-names, especially in Ireland and Scotland, as Drumcoudra, Drumglass, Drumsheugh, Drum lanrig, Drumoak; and it is frequently found alone as the name of a farm, an estate, a village, etc.
38. (n) drum
    Specifically.
39. (n) drum
    A long narrow ridge or mound of sand, gravel, and boulders: a name given by Irish geologists to elevations of this kind believed to have been the result of glacial agencies. See eskar, horseback, and kame. Also called drumlin.
40. drum
    To treat in a drum, as skins. See druml, n., 3 .
41. drum
    In forestry, to haul (logs) by drum and cable out of a hollow or cove.

1. (n) Drum
   drum an instrument of percussion, in which a skin of parchment, stretched on a frame of wood or metal, is beaten with an instrument called a drumstick: anything shaped like a drum: the tympanum or middle portion of the ear: :
2. (v.i) Drum
   to beat a drum: to beat with the fingers
3. (v.t) Drum
   to drum out, to expel: to summon:—pr.p. drum′ming; pa.p. drummed
4. (n) Drum
   drum a small hill or ridge of hills, used in many place-names, as Drumglass, Drumsheugh, &c.
5. (n) Drum
   drum (archit.) the upright part of a cupola
6. (n) Drum
   drum (mech.) a revolving cylinder: formerly a large and tumultuous evening party (said to be so called because rival hostesses vied with each other in beating up crowds of guests)

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