Tympanize
Tym″pa‐nize (?), v. i. [L. tympanizare to beat a drum, Gr. �.] To drum. Coles.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Tym″pa‐nize (?), v. i. [L. tympanizare to beat a drum, Gr. �.] To drum. Coles.
Tym″pa‐nize, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tympanized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tympanizing (?).] To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act ...
‖Tym″pa‐no (?), n.; pl.Tympani (#). [It. timpano. See Tympanum.] (Mus.) A kettledrum; — chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum. [Wr...
Tym″pa‐no– (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tympanum; as in tympanohyal, tympano-Eustachian.
Tym′pa‐no‐hy″al (?), a.(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch. — n. The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of ...
Tym″pa‐num (?), n.; pl. E. Tympanums (#), L. Tympana (#). [L., a kettledrum, a drum or wheel in machines, the triangular area in a pediment, the panel of a door, Gr. �, �, fr. �...
Tym″pa‐ny (?), n. [Gr. �, fr. � a kettledrum. See Tympanites.] 1. (Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidnes...
Tynd (?), v. t. [See Tine to shut in.] To shut; to close. Wyclif.
Tyne (?), v. t. [Icel. t�na.] To lose. “His bliss gan he tyne.” Piers Plowman.Sir W. Scott.
Tyne, v. i. To become lost; to perish. Spenser.
Tyne, n. [See Tine a prong.] (Zoöl.) A prong or point of an antler.
Tyne, n. [See Teen, n.] Anxiety; tine. “With labor and long tyne.” Spenser.
Ty″ny (?), a. [See Tiny.] Small; tiny.
Typ″al (?), a. Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical. Owen.
Type (?), n. [F. type; cf. It. tipo, from L. typus a figure, image, a form, type, character, Gr. � the mark of a blow, impression, form of character, model, from the root of � t...
Type (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Typed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Typing.] 1. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. White (Johnson).2. To furnish an expression...
Type″set′ter (?), n. One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.
Type″set′ting, n. The act or art of setting type.
Type″write′ (?), v. t. & i. To write with a typewriter.
Type″writ′er (?), n. 1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed i...
Type″writ′ing, n. The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
‖Typh‐li″tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � blind, closed (as applied to the cæcum) + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the cæcum.
Typh″lo‐sole (?), n.(Zoöl.) A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
Ty‐pho″ë‐an (?), a. [L. Typhoius, from Typhoeus, Gr. �, �.] Of or pertaining to Typhoeus (tī̍‐fō″ūs), the fabled giant of Greek mythology, having a hundred heads; resembling Typ...
Ty″phoid (?), a. [Typhus + -oid: cf. F. typhoïde, Gr. �. See Typhus.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.Typh...
Ty′pho‐ma‐la″ri‐al (?), a.(Med.) Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever.
Ty′pho‐ma″ni‐a (?), n. [NL. See Typhus, and Mania.] (Med.) A low delirium common in typhus fever.