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.