Part 3504

<i>Wodroephe (1623). Burns.</i>

<h1>Drum major</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drum" ma"jor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>.</def>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The marching leader of a military band.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A noisy gathering. <mark>[R.]</mark> See under <er>Drum</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, <p><b>4.</b></def>

<h1>Drummer</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drum"mer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.</def> <mark>[Colloq. U.S.]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A fish that makes a sound when caught</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The squeteague</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A California sculpin.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A large West Indian cockroach (<spn>Blatta gigantea</spn>) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.</def>

<h1>Drumming</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drum"ming</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Drummond light</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drum"mond light`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[From Thomas <ets>Drummond</ets>, a British naval officer.]</ety> <def>A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also <altname>oxycalcium light</altname>, or <altname>lime light</altname>.</def>

<note>&hand; The name is also applied sometimes to a heliostat, invented by Drummond, for rendering visible a distant point, as in geodetic surveying, by reflecting upon it a beam of light from the sun.</note>

<h1>Drumstick</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drum"stick`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A stick with which a drum is beaten.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.</def>

<h1>Drunk</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drunk</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>dronke</ets>, <ets>drunke</ets>, <ets>dronken</ets>, <ets>drunken</ets>, AS. <ets>druncen</ets>. Orig. the same as <ets>drunken</ets>, p. p. of <ets>drink</ets>. See <er>Drink</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used <i>attributively</i>, but always <i>predicatively</i>; <as>as, the man is <ex>drunk</ex> (not, a <ex>drunk</ex> man)</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Be not <b>drunk</b> with wine, where in is excess. <i> Eph. v. 18.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Drunk</b> with recent prosperity. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.</def>