subs. (old).—See quot.
1746. SMOLLETT, Advice, Note to line 30. Drum: This is a riotous assembly of fashionable people, of both sexes, at a private house, consisting of some hundreds; not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. There are also drum-major, rout, TEMPEST, and hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar.
See TEA CUP.
