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.
Related words: (words related to DRUMBEAT)
- 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.