tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)
The sound made by beating a drum.
(medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
Source: Wiktionary
Tym"pa*ny, n. Etym: [Gr. Tympanites.]
1. (Med.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
