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Definition of Drum
| n. | 1. | (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. | | 2. | (Anat.) Anything resembling a drum in form | | 3. | (Zool.) See Drumfish. | | 4. | A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. | | 5. | A tea party; a kettledrum. | | v. i. | 1. | To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. | | 2. | 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. | | 3. | To throb, as the heart. | | 4. | To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; - with for. | | v. t. | 1. | To execute on a drum, as a tune. | | 2. | With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. | | 3. | 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. |
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