TIMBREL Tim"brel, n. Etym: [Dim. of OE. timbre, OF. timbre; probably fr. L. typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal a drum. See Tympanum, and cf. 2d Timbre, Tymbal.] (Mus.)
Defn: A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest
antiquity.
Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out
after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20.
TIMBRELED; TIMBRELLED
Tim"breled, Tim"brelled, a.
Defn: Sung to the sound of the timbrel. "In vain with timbreled anthems dark." Milton.
TIMBURINE
Tim`bu*rine", n.
Defn: A tambourine. [Obs.]
TIME Time, n.; pl. Times. Etym: [OE. time, AS. tima, akin to tid time, and to Icel. timi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. *58. See Tide, n.]
1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. Reid.
2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Heb. i. 1.
3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; — often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.