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tympany |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tympany \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.
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