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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Tympanize

Tȳm'pa-nīze, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [O. Fr. tympaniser, Lat. tympanizare, Gr. τυμπανίζειν.] To act the part of a drummer. Coles.

Tym'pa-nīze, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. TYMPANIZED; p. pr. & vb. n. TYMPANIZING.] To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drum-head, or cause to act or sound like a drum.