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To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan. "An axis or cylinder having a rundle about it." Bp. Wilkins.

Free from scar. Drummond.

A Linnæan genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.

The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

umex Acetosella, or Rumex Axetosa. -- Sorrel tree (Bot.), a small ericaceous tree (Oxydendrum arboreum) whose leaves resemble those of the peach and have a sour taste. It is common along the Alleghanies. Called also sourwood. -- Wood sorrel (Bot.), any plant of the genus Oxalis.

air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound. The warlike sound Of trumpets loud and clarions. Milton.

he corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

r more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.

A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.

A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]

A small, shallow drum; a tabor.

arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum.

A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom.

A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.

A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo. Wilhelm.

A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp. The Devil's tattoo. See under Devil.

A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. [Archaic] Smollett.

rigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc. And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. Longfellow.