Tympanic bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which incloses a part of the
tympanum and supports the tympanic membrane. — Tympanic membrane.
(Anat.) See the Note under Ear.
Tym*pan"ic, n. (Anat.) The tympanic bone.
Tym"pa*nist (?), n. [L. tympaniste, Gr. &?;.] One who beats a drum.
[R.]
||Tym`pa*ni"tes (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; a kettledrum.] (Med.)
||A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.
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Tym`pa*nit"ic (?), a. [L. tympaniticus one afflicted with tympanites.]
(Med.) Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites.
Tym`pa*ni"tis (?), n. [NL. See Tympanum, and -itis.] (Med.)
Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.
Tym"pa*nize (?), v. i. [L. tympanizare to beat a drum, Gr. &?;.] To
drum. [R.] Coles.
Tym"pa*nize, v. t. [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 drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.
[Obs.] "Tympanized, as other saints of God were." Oley.
||Tym"pa*no (?), n.; pl. Tympani (#). [It. timpano. See Tympanum.]
||(Mus.) A kettledrum; — chiefly used in the plural to denote the
||kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum. [Written also timpano.]
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Tym"pa*no- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection
with, or relation to, the tympanum; as in tympanohyal, tympano-
Eustachian.
Tym`pa*no*hy"al (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum and
the hyoidean arch. — n. The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch,
becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult
man.
Tym"pa*num (?), n.; pl. E. Tympanums (#), L. Tympana (#). [L., a
kettledrum, a drum or wheel in machines, the triangular area in a
pediment, the panel of a door, Gr. &?;, &?;, fr. &?; to strike, beat.
See Type, and cf. Timbrel.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The ear drum, or middle ear.
Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear. (b) A
chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.
2. (Zoöl.) One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the
prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
3. (Arch.) (a) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by
the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or
table. (b) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a
subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
4. (Mech.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which
water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part
of the circumference submerged, — used for raising water, as for
irrigation.
Tym"pa*ny (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; a kettledrum. See Tympanites.] 1.
(Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.
2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. "Thine 's a tympany
of sense." Dryden.
A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence.
De Quincey.
Tynd (?), v. t. [See Tine to shut in.] To shut; to close. [Obs.]
Wyclif.
Tyne (?), v. t. [Icel. t&?;na.] To lose. [Obs. or Scot.] "His bliss gan
he tyne." Piers Plowman. Sir W. Scott.
Tyne, v. i. To become lost; to perish. [Obs.] Spenser.
Tyne, n. [See Tine a prong.] (Zoöl.) A prong or point of an antler.
Tyne, n. [See Teen, n.] Anxiety; tine. [Obs.] "With labor and long
tyne." Spenser.