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Tympan

noun

A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end. Synonyms: drum, membranophone.

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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

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... 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

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Words linked to "Tympan" : snare, drum, percussive instrument, bongo, percussion instrument, head, tom-tom, tabour, snare drum, membranophone, gran casa, drumhead, tenor drum, bongo drum, bass drum, tambour, tabor, side drum, timbrel, tympanist, tambourine