Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work..

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d)..

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade..

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery..

Tambour :: Tambour (v. t.) To embroider on a tambour.

Tamboured :: Tamboured (imp. & p. p.) of Tambou.

Tambourin :: Tambourin (n.) A tambourine.

Tambourin :: Tambourin (n.) An old Provencal dance of a lively character, common on the stage..

Tambourine :: Tambourine (n.) A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel..

Tambouring :: Tambouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tambou.

Tambreet :: Tambreet (n.) The duck mole.

Tamburin :: Tamburin (n.) See Tambourine.

Tramble :: Tramble (v. t.) To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose..

Unambiguity :: Unambiguity (n.) Absence of ambiguity; clearness; perspicuity.

Unambition :: Unambition (n.) The absence of ambition.

Underchamberlain :: Underchamberlain (n.) A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.

Vambrace :: Vambrace (n.) The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

Wamble :: Wamble (v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.

Wamble :: Wamble (v. i.) To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.

Wamble :: Wamble (n.) Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.

Wamble-cropped :: Wamble-cropped (a.) Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected..

Ynambu :: Ynambu (n.) A South American tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens); -- called also perdiz grande, and rufous tinamou. See Illust. of Tinamou..

Zalambdodont :: Zalambdodont (a.) Of or pertaining to a tribe (Zalambdodonta) of Insectivora in which the molar teeth have but one V-shaped ridge.

Zalambdodont :: Zalambdodont (n.) One of the Zalambdodonta. The tenrec, solenodon, and golden moles are examples..

Zambo :: Zambo (n.) The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo..

Zambos :: Zambos (pl. ) of Zamb.

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