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Tympan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A drum; hence, the barrel or hollow part of the ear behind the membrane of the tympanum.

2. The area of a pediment; also, the part of a pedestal called the trunk or dye.

3. The pannel of a door.

4. A triangular space or table in the corners or sides of an arch, usually enriched with figures.

5. Among printers, a frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.

Tympan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A drum.

2. A panel; a tympanum.

3. A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.

Tympana [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tympanum

Tympanal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tympanic.

Tympani [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tympano

Tympanic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Of or pertaining to the tympanum.

Tympanic [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The tympanic bone.

Tympanist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who beats a drum.

Tympanites [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In medicine, a flatulent distention of the belly; wind dropsy; tympany.

Tympanites [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

Tympanitic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites.

Tympanitis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.

Tympanize [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To act the part of a drummer.

Tympanize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum.

Tympanize [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To drum.

Tympanize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.

Tympanized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tympanizing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tympano [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.

Tympano- Webster's Dictionary 1913

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tympanum; as in tympanohyal, tympano-Eustachian.

Tympanohyal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch.

Tympanohyal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man.

Tympanum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The drum of the ear. [ See Tympan .]

2. In mechanics, a wheel placed round an axis.

Tympanum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.

3. One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.

4. The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.

5. The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.

6. A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.

Tympanums [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tympany [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A flatulent distention of the belly. [ See Tympanites .]

Tympany [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.

2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.