Tympany

Tapping the knuckles of my left hand lightly with my right is like batting at a balloon, and I can hear the mellow tympany of the gas that is inside. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

They had permission to turn over the late Sir Caspar's drum, though the place is more like an entire tympany section. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, are McCain and Palin are holding this girl now -- who apparently got impregnated at age 16, which is something that doesn't sit well with many of us, including those of who thump Bibles as if they were tympany -- in front of themselves to hold off the inevitable: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only wise, only rich, only fortunate, valorous, and fair, puffed up with this tympany of self-conceit; [1918] as that proud Pharisee, they are not (as they suppose) like other men, of a purer and more precious metal: [1919] Soli rei gerendi sunt efficaces, which that wise Periander held of such: [1920] meditantur omne qui prius negotium, &c. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some are like woodwinds, some are like strings, some are like brass instruments, some are like tympany, etc. etc. ❋ Asakiyume (2006)

S — — was with child when she was last in England, and pretended a tympany, and saw everybody; then disappeared for three weeks, her tympany was gone, and she looked like a ghost, etc. No wonder she married when she was so ill at containing. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This practice of swathing was resorted to on account of the tympany [48] which followed these spasmodic ravings; but the bystanders frequently relieved patients in a less artificial manner, _by thumping and trampling upon the parts affected_. ❋ Various (N/A)

For the rest, the blows were never administered except during the torments of convulsion; and at that time the tympany ❋ Various (N/A)

Griselda among herbs, may be given with admirable effect in pottage, as a domestic aperient, "loosening the belly, helping the jaundice, and dispersing the tympany." ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

In most cases of indigestion characterized by fermentation and collections of gas in the intestine there is gastric tympany as well. ❋ R. A. Craig (N/A)

For performance Nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done, -- makes a dropsy or a tympany of him. ❋ Various (N/A)

'Though you have taken a resolution, in one of your papers, to avoid descending to particularities of dress, I believe you will not think it below you on so extraordinary an occasion, to unhoop the fair sex, and cure this fashionable tympany that is got among them. ❋ Various (N/A)

With complete obstruction there may be tympany from the collapsed lung for a time. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

Various grades and degrees of tympany may be noted. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

Varying grades of tympany are obtained over areas of obstructive or compensatory emphysema. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

The duration of the vibrations may be shortened giving a muffled tympany. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

In Liège, Utrecht, Tongres, and many other towns of Belgium the dancers appeared with garlands in their hair, and their waists girt with cloths, that they might, as soon as the paroxysm was over, receive immediate relief on the attack of the tympany. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

This practice of swathing was resorted to on account of the tympany which followed these spasmodic ravings, but the bystanders frequently relieved patients in a less artificial manner, by thumping and trampling upon the parts affected. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

The highly colored descriptions of the sixteenth century contradict the notion that this mental plague had in any degree diminished in its severity, and not a single fact is to be found which supports the opinion that any one of the essential symptoms of the disease, not even excepting the tympany, had disappeared, or that the disorder itself had become milder in its attacks. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)