TYMPANY

tympany. Tympany, n. a disease, a hard swelling of the belly

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Tym″pa‐ny (?), n. [[Gr. �, fr. � a kettledrum. See Tympanites.]] 1. 1. (Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.
2. 2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. “Thine 's a tympany of sense.” Dryden.
A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. De Quincey.