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Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.

A kettledrum. See Tymbal.

A seasoned preparation, as of chicken, lobster, cheese, or fish, cooked in a drum-shaped mold; also, a pastry case, usually small, filled with a cooked mixture.

A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20.

A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning. The trick of that voice I do well remember. Shak. He hath a trick of Coeur de Lion's face. Shak.

A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.

The beat of a drum. Scot.

A kind of kettledrum. [Written also trimbal.] A tymbal's sound were better than my voice. Prior.

A drum. [Obs.]

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

One who beats a drum. [R.]

To drum. [R.] Coles.

A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum. [Written also timpano.]

The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.

To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves. Spenser.

To remove from its actual century. [R.] It has first to uncentury itself. H. Drummond.

Having but one sound, as the drum. [R.]

To remove the muffling of, as a drum.

One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog. Knight. Urchin fish (Zoöl.), a diodon.