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The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.

d of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc.

The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.

To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused. [Obs.] Shak.

he family Sciænidæ, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.

The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.

A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

Turbid; muddy. [Scot. & Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wodroephe (1623). Burns.

One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.

A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.

A stick with which a drum is beaten.

The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.

Amber.

One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.

Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

To solder or unite, as metals. [R.] Coleridge.

The soldering ir uniting of me [R.] Coleridge.

ar and decide causes. He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum. Brougham.

Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.