Tympanize

Tym´pa`nize

v. i.	1.	To drum.
v. t.	1.	To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum. [imp. & p. p. Tympanized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tympanizing .]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.