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f 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. The d…

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 stick with which a drum is beaten.

To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. "Now the drum dubs." Beau. & Fl.

An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.

Beaten; hence, blunted. [Obs.] Fencer's swords . . . having the edge dunted. Fuller.

pen. -- Dutch foil, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf. -- Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish tast…

The effulgence of his glory abides. Milton. The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. Beattie.

A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.

f the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific. "Elysian shades." Massinger. "Elysian age." Beattie. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Longfellow.

nlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; -- used by gold beaters. Knight. -- To enlarge an order or rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. -- To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject."…

ity; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue. With every excellence refined. Beattie.

The act of removing or beating out the brains.

of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

heet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal. The starred expansion of the skies. Beattie.

Capable of being extended. [Obs.] Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer. Boyle.

Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

ood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.]

To beat or whip; to drive. [Obs.] Otway.

so as to dip about perpendicularly into the water and leave in it the same way, avoiding beating on the water in the descent and lifting water in the ascent.