n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ From Thomas Drummond, a British naval officer. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The name is also applied sometimes to a heliostat, invented by Drummond, for rendering visible a distant point, as in geodetic surveying, by reflecting upon it a beam of light from the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]
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[jié gǔ cuī huā, ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄍㄨˇ ㄘㄨㄟ ㄏㄨㄚ, 羯鼓催花] drumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum in apricot blossom [Add to Longdo]
[gǔ pén zhī qī, ㄍㄨˇ ㄆㄣˊ ㄓ ㄑㄧ, 鼓盆之戚 / 鼓盆之慼] drumming on a bowl in grief (成语 saw, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife); fig. grief for a lost wife [Add to Longdo]
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