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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. Gascoigne.

The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.

he middle ear through the nose or mouth. -- Eustrachian tube (Anat.), a passage from the tympanum of the ear to the pharynx. See Ear. -- Eustachian valve (Anat.), a crescent-shaped fold of the lining membrane of the heart at the entrance of the vena cava inferior. It directs the blood towards the left auricle in the…

A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

The rest for the tympan when raised.

g in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.

When we have occasion to listen, and give a more particular attention to same sound, the tympanum is drawn to a more than ordinary tension. Holder.

outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.

A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.

A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

Insect. -- Persian red. See Indian red (a), under Indian. -- Persian wheel, a noria; a tympanum. See Noria.

ly, a so called natural meadow. Prairie chicken (Zoöl.), any American grouse of the genus Tympanuchus, especially T. Americanus (formerly T. cupido), which inhabits the prairies of the central United States. Applied also to the sharp-tailed grouse. -- Prairie clover (Bot.), any plant of the leguminous genus Petalostem…

A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.

eel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.

A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

and slender process from the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals.