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Word Meanings - DRUMBEAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.

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  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • MARTIALIST
    A warrior. Fuller.
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • EARTH FLAX
    A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
  • DRUMBEAT
    The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.
  • EARTHDIN
    An earthquake.
  • MUSIC HALL
    A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
  • FOLLOWING EDGE
    See ABOVE
  • SOUNDER
    One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • STRAINING
    from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
  • EARTHSTAR
    A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
  • WEBSTERITE
    A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.
  • EARTHBRED
    Low; grovelling; vulgar.
  • SOUNDLESS
    Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
  • MUSICALLY
    In a musical manner.
  • MORNE
    Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.
  • EARTHBANK
    A bank or mound of earth.
  • MARTIAL
    Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. Martial flowers , a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. -- Martial law, the law administered by the military power of a government when it
  • EARTHQUAVE
    An earthquake.
  • PHILOMUSICAL
    Loving music. Busby.
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • SAFE-KEEPING
    The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • WINTER-BEATEN
    Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
  • UNEARTHLY
    Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
  • OUTKEEPER
    An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • TRUST COMPANY
    Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.

 

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