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A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan. South.

One who trapans, or insnares.

To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.

food in China; -- called also bêche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. [Written also tripang.]

To trepan. [Obs.] "By trepanizing the skull." Jer. Taylor.

One who trepans. " Pitiful trepanners and impostors." Gauden.

See Trepang.

See Tripping, a., 2.

Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.

A panel; a tympanum.

Tympanic.

Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.

One who beats a drum. [R.]

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.

a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum. [Obs.] "Tympanized, as other saints of God were." Oley.

in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum. [Written also timpano.]

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tympanum; as in tympanohyal, tympano-Eustachian.

Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch. -- n.