Vocabulary : Drummer to Drunkenness
Drummer : One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching. ;; One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. ;; A fish that makes a sound when caught ;; The squeteague. ;; A California sculpin. ;; A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.Drumming : of Drum ;; The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.
Drummond light : A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.
Drumstick : A stick with which a drum is beaten. ;; Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.
Drunk : of Drink ;; of Drink ;; Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). ;; Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. ;; A drunken condition; a spree.
