*tamb*

n. 1. A small shrubby spiny tree (Dovyalis hebecarpa) cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasking like gooseberries; it is native to Sri Lanka and India.
Syn. -- ketembilla, kitembilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A maroon-purple gooseberrylike fruit of India having a tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves.
Syn. -- ketembilla, kitembilla. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. nox, noctis, night + ambulare to walk: cf. F. noctambulation. ] Somnambulism; sleepwalking; walking in one's sleep. Quain. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. Somnambulism.
Syn. -- sleepwalking; noctambulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A somnambulist; a sleepwalker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A noctambulist; a sleepwalker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metal.) See Tombac. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Mus.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d). [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fort.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physiol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tamboured p. pr. & vb. n. Tambouring. ] To embroider on a tambour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Mus.) A stringed musical instrument resembling a lute but lacking frets, with a small round body and a long neck, used to produce an accompaniment for singing; -- called also tambur, tambour, and tampur. [ Also spelled tambura. ] [ PJC ]

n. [ F. See Tambourine. ] 1. A tambourine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) An old Provençal dance of a lively character, common on the stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tambourin; cf. It. tamburino. See Tambour, and cf. Tamborine. ] A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) The duck mole. [ 1913 Webster ]