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noun

Tympan n.

A drum. (Obs.)

(Arch.) A panel; a tympanum.

(Print.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.

Tympan sheet (Print.), a sheet of paper of the same size as that to be printed, pasted on the tympan, and serving as a guide in laying the sheets evenly for printing.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Napoleon. Il y avait des whigs jusque dans la famille royale, et ils etaient pleins d'ardeur. Au reste la cause etait belle: c'etait celle de la liberte contre l'autorite. "Nos adversaires," s'ecriait Lord John Russell, "nous cassent le tympan avec le cri: 'Le roi et l'Eglise.' Savez-vous ce qu'ils entendent par la? C'est une Eglise sans evangile et un roi qui se met au-dessus de la loi." Oxford—clerical et litteraire—etait tory; Cambridge, scientifique, qui avait eu Newton et attendait ...

— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... experiment. A few hours after one side of a sheet of paper has been printed upon, the ink is sufficiently dry to allow it to receive the impression upon the other; and, as considerable pressure is made use of, the tympan on which the side first printed is laid, is guarded from soiling it by a sheet of paper called the set-off sheet. This paper receives, in succession, every sheet of the work to be printed, acquiring from them more or less of the ink, ...

— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage

... lay in the press. The old "bear" folded down the frisket upon the tympan, and the tympan upon the form, ran in the carriage, worked the lever, drew out the carriage, and lifted the frisket and tympan, all with as much agility as the youngest of the tribe. The press, handled in this sort, creaked aloud in such fine ...

— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... afterwards became his wife. In 1890 he returned to America, becoming instructor in the Art School of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He has done a number of works for the Congressional Library, the Vanderbilt bronze doors of the St. Bartholomew Church of New York, the tympan of the Madonna and Child in the same church, a statue of William Ellery Channing and many others. His beautiful busts of women are said to be unsurpassed even ...

— Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts • Juliet James