Drum

n.	1.	(Mus.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. - Gascoigne.
	2.	(Anat.) Anything resembling a drum in form
	3.	(Zool.) See Drumfish.
	4.	A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. - Smollett.
	5.	A tea party; a kettledrum. Bass drum See in the Vocabulary. Double drum See under Double.
v. i.	1.	To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. [imp. & p. p. Drummed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drumming.]
	2.	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. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. - W. Irving.
	3.	To throb, as the heart.
	4.	To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; - with for.
v. t.	1.	To execute on a drum, as a tune.
	2.	With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
	3.	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.

Noun	1.	drum - a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end Synonyms: membranophone, tympan
	2.	drum - the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"
	3.	drum - a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends Synonyms: barrel
	4.	drum - a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids Synonyms: metal drum
	5.	drum - a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes Synonyms: brake drum
	6.	drum - small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise Synonyms: drumfish
Verb	1.	drum - make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" Synonyms: thrum, beat
	2.	drum - play a percussion instrument
	3.	drum - study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" Synonyms: bone, bone up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up, cram, get up

drum - Ancient slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of-the-art storage devices. Under BSD Unix the disk partition used for swapping is still called "/dev/drum"; this has led to considerable humour and not a few straight-faced but utterly bogus "explanations" getting foisted on newbies. See also "The Story of Mel".

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