Drum (n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.
Drum (n.) See Drumfish.
Drum (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
Drum (n.) A tea party; a kettledrum.
Drummed (imp. & p. p.) of Drum
Drumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drum
Drum (v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
Drum (v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
Drum (v. i.) To throb, as the heart.
Drum (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
Drum (v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune.
Drum (v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
Drum (v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.
Drumbeat (n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
Drumble (v. i.) To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
Drumble (v. i.) To mumble in speaking.
Drumfish (n.) Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.
Drumhead (n.) The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
Drumhead (n.) The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.
Drumlin (n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
Drumly (a.) Turbid; muddy.
Drum major () .
Drum major () The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.
Drum major () The marching leader of a military band.
Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4.
Drummer (n.) One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.
Drummer (n.) One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.
Drummer (n.) A fish that makes a sound when caught
Drummer (n.) The squeteague.
Drummer (n.) A California sculpin.
Drummer (n.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.
Drumming (n.) 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.
Drummond light () 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.
Drumstick (n.) A stick with which a drum is beaten.
Drumstick (n.) Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.
Drunk (a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
Drunk (a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
Drunk (n.) A drunken condition; a spree.
Drunkard (n.) One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.
Drunken (v. i.) Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.
Drunken (v. i.) Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
Drunken (v. i.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
Drunkenhead (n.) Drunkenness.
Drunkenly (adv.) In a drunken manner.
Drunkenness (n.) The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.
Drunkenness (n.) Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Drunkenship (n.) Alt. of Drunkship
Drunkship (n.) The state of being drunk; drunkenness.
Drupaceous (a.) Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.
Drupal (a.) Drupaceous.
Drupe (n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.
Drupel (n.) Alt. of Drupelet
Drupelet (n.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.
Druse (n.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.
Druse (n.) One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.
Drusy (a.) Alt. of Drused
Drused (a.) Covered with a large number of minute crystals.
Druxey (a.) Alt. of Druxy
Druxy (a.) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber.
Dry (superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
Dry (superl.) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
Dry (superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
Dry (superl.) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
Dry (superl.) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
Dry (superl.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
Dry (superl.) Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.
Dry (superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.
Dry (superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
Dried (imp. & p. p.) of Dry
Drying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dry
Dry (a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.
Dry (v. i.) To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.
Dry (v. i.) To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.
Dry (v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.
Dryad (n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
Dryandra (n.) A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.
Dryades (pl. ) of Dryas
Dryas (n.) A dryad.
Dry-beat (v. t.) To beat severely.
Dry-boned (a.) Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.
Dry dock () See under Dock.
Dryer (n.) See Drier.
Dry-eyed (a.) Not having tears in the eyes.
Dry-fisted (a.) Niggardly.
Dryfoot (n.) The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced.
Dry goods () A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
Drying (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.
Drying (a.) Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
Dryly (adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Dryness (n.) The state of being dry. See Dry.
Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.
Drynurse (v. t.) To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast.
Dryobalanops (n.) The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.
Dry-rubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Dry-rub
Dry-rubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dry-rub
Dry-rub (v. t.) To rub and cleanse without wetting.
Drysalter (n.) A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs.