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These are the tympana or ear-drums of the ear of that leg.— The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
All the other parts, such as tympana and the simae of the corona, are to be constructed as described above in the case of the Ionic order 7.— The Ten Books on Architecture
Nay--they're not of parchment now But, with printers' ink and paper, you can raise a loud tow-row Be it at a Labour Congress, Masters' Meeting, Club, or Pub Public tympana are deafened with their ceaseless rub-a-dub Tug of War!— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 1, 1890
I am from hence induc't to be of opinion that these tympana were made according to such and such proportions, suitable to such and such notes Mersennus, or Kircher, sayes, that one may know what quantity of liquor is in the vessel by the sound of it, knowing before the empty note.— The Natural History of Wiltshire
Interim quoque Musica perstrepit, tympana et alia crepitacula concutiuntur, ne pueri planctus et ploratus audiatur. "— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
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