Bass drum

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• Drum

  ·vi To throb, as the heart. II. Drum ·noun A tea party; a kettledrum. III. Drum ·vt To execute on ...

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• drum

  n. a bundle; more usually calleda swag (q.v.). 1866. Wm. Starner, `Recollections of a Life of Adve...

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• drum

  See storm-drum. ...

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• Bass

  ·pl of Bass. II. Bass ·adj Deep or grave in tone. III. Bass ·noun A hassock or thick mat. IV. Bas...

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• bass

  a hassock to kneel upon at church. N. ...

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• bass

  , or bast A soft sedge or rush (Juncus lævis), of which coarse kinds of rope and matting are made....

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• Drum major

  ·- ... II. Drum major ·- The marching leader of a military band. III. Drum major ·- A noisy gather...

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• Drum winding

  ·add. ·- A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinde...

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• hum drum

  A hum drum fellow; a dull tedious narrator, a bore; also a set of gentlemen, who (Bailey says) used ...

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• mire-drum

  a bittern. Norf. ...

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• banded-drum

  See grunter. ...

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• drum-capstan

  A contrivance for weighing heavy anchors, invented by Sir S. Morland, who died in 1695. ...

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• muffled drum

  The sound is thus damped at funerals: passing the spare cord, which is made of drummer's plait (to c...

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• storm-drum

  A canvas cylinder 3 feet in length, expanded at each end by a strong wooden hoop 3 feet in diameter....

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• Bass horn

  ·- A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone. ...

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• Bass viol

  ·- A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. ·see 3d Bass, ·noun, and <<Violo...

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• Bass-relief

  ·noun Some as Bas-relief. ...

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• Black bass

  ·- The sea bass. ·see <<Blackfish>>, 3. II. Black bass ·- An edible, fresh-water fish of the United...

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• Sea bass

  ·- A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); — called also white sea bass, and sea salmon. II. Se...

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• Sub-bass

  ·noun The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass. ...

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• Thorough bass

  ·- The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; — s...

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• red bass

  n. a fish of Moreton Bay (q.v.), Mesoprion superbus, Castln., family Percidae. ...

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• otsego bass

  ♦ Coregonus otsego, a fish of the American lakes. ...

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• Mullinger, James Bass

  (b. 1834) Historian. Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century (1867), The Ancient Afric...

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• mire-bumper and mire-drum

  North-country names of the bittern. ...

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