Drum major
Drum″ ma″jor (?). 1. The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.2. The marching leader of a military band.3. A noisy gathering. See under Drum, n., 4.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Drum winding
Drum winding. (Elec.) A method 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 ...
Drumbeat
Drum″beat′ (?), n. 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 an...
Drumble
Drum″ble (?), v. i. [See Drumly.] 1. To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused. Shak.2. To mumble in speaking.
Drumfish
Drum″fish′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any fish of the family Sciænidæ, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; — called also drum.☞ The common drumfish (Pogonias chromis) is a...
Drumhead
Drum″head′ (?), n. 1. The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.2. The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of ...
Drumlin
Drum″lin (?), n. [Gael. druim the ridge of a hill.] (Geol.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to th...
Drumly
Drum″ly, a. [Cf. Droumy.] Turbid; muddy. Wodroephe (1623). Burns.
Drummer
Drum″mer (?), n. 1. One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.2. One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. Bartlett.3. (Zoöl.) A fish tha...
Drumming
Drum″ming (?), 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
Drum″mond light′ (?). [From Thomas Drummond, a British naval officer.] A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal g...
Drumstick
Drum″stick′ (?), n. 1. A stick with which a drum is beaten.2. Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.
Drunk
Drunk (?), a. [OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink.] 1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriate...
Drunk (2)
Drunk, n. A drunken condition; a spree.
Drunkard
Drunk″ard (?), n. [Drunk + -ard.] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.The drunkard and glutton shall come t...
Drunken
Drunk″en (?), a. [AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk.] 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by,...
Drunkenhead
Drunk″en‐head (?), n. Drunkenness.
Drunkenly
Drunk″en‐ly, adv. In a drunken manner. Shak.
Drunkenness
Drunk″en‐ness, n. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; — used of the casual state or the habit.The Lacedemonians trained up...
Drunkenship
{ Drunk″en‐ship, Drunk″ship, } n. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. Gower.
Drupaceous
Dru‐pa″ceous (?), a. [Cf. F. drupacé.] (Bot.) Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.
Drupal
Drup″al (?), a.(Bot.) Drupaceous.
Drupe
Drupe (?), n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. �.] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut o...
Drupel
{ Drup″el (?), Drupe″let (?), } n. [Dim. of Drupe.] (Bot.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.
Druse
Druse (?), n. [Cf. G. druse bonny, crystallized piece of ore, Bohem. druza. Cf. Dross.] (Min.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometime...
Druse (2)
Druse (?), n. One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.The Druses separated from the Mohammedan Arabs in the 9th century. Their char...
Drusy
{ Dru″sy (?), Drused (?), } a.(Min.) Covered with a large number of minute crystals.