tympany
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Louis Jordan, 66, saxophonist, blues singer and bandleader, whose Tympany Five combo cut several top-selling discs in the 1940s, including Is You Is or Is You Ain 't My Baby?,
From Time Magazine Archive
Tympany consists in an elastic tumor of the abdomen, which sounds on being struck.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Tympany is 'a kind of obstructed flatulence, that swells the body like a drum.'
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
These Frogs baked and beat to Powder, and taken with Orrice-Root cures a Tympany.
