This façade is of the fifteenth century and on the tympan of the dormer windows one may still see the monogram of its builder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

The "thing" presented here is an unadorned image of Hone's printing press, an iron Stanhope with the tympan raised to the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Commentary] Reference

After the impression had been taken, the platen was screwed up, the bed "run out," the tympan frame and frisket lifted, and the printed sheet taken off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

When the sheets of paper had been placed upon the tympan frame, the frisket was folded down upon it, and the two were then turned down over the form of type.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

Attached to the upper end of the inner frame by hinges was a thin and narrow frame, called the "frisket," of the same length and width as the inner tympan frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

Mechanisms are employed to move the "tympan sheet" or outside covering of the second cylinder along at fixed intervals, but they are complicated and troublesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

This form of the apparatus is more suitable for inclosure in a wall box with or without a mouthpiece, but it does not require the employment of any kind of diaphragm or tympan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference

This enabled the printing of larger forms and the use of a thinner and harder "packing," or "tympan," between the platen and the sheet of paper to be printed, resulting in a sharper and clearer impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

Nothing remained now but to adjust the guides which would hold the cards on the tympan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Bobby Orde] Reference

Over the cylinder is supported a diaphragm or tympan T, provided with a conical mouthpiece M for speaking into.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Electricity] Reference

It consisted of a table, along which the forme of type, furnished with a tympan and frisket, was pushed by hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference

Preparing the tympan, regulating the impression, underlaying and overlaying, setting gauges, and other details explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters] Reference

An eighteenth-century doorway had been added to it, and the tympan of the pediment was quite filled up with hanging plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

The ornament is nearly confined to the tympan over the portal, the capitals of columns, and to the choir with its seven absidal chapels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

The portal is very wide and deeply recessed, and the tympan is crowded with bas-reliefs, the sculpture of which, rude yet expressive, is of a striking originality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

The interest of the exterior is centred upon the bas-relief representing the Last Judgment, which fills the entire tympan of the arch covering the two main doorways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

The mimicry of its movements upon our white painted canvass was as faithful and luminous as that of animals within a few yards of the camera obscrua, when seen pictures upon its tympan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gawker] Reference

The old "bear" folded down the frisket upon the tympan, and the tympan upon the form, ran in the carriage, worked the lever, drew out the carriage, and lifted the frisket and tympan, all with as much agility as the youngest of the tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Illusions] Reference

The old instrument consisted, as is well known, of a vibrating tympan or drum, from the centre of which projected a steel point or stylus, in such a manner that on speaking to the tympan its vibrations would urge the stylus to dig into a sheet of tinfoil moving past its point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Electricity] Reference

Les voix des pitites japonaise me vrillent les tympan), le metal ou truc qui petent bien aussi viennent du japon ou d'amerique.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

They finally caused, or most leastways brung it about somehows (that) the pip of the lin (to) pinnatrate inthro an auricular forfickle (known as the Vakingfar sleeper, mono-fractured by Piaras UaRhuamhaighaudhlug, tympan founder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

“bear” folded down the frisket upon the tympan, and the tympan upon the form, ran in the carriage, worked the lever, drew out the carriage, and lifted the frisket and tympan, all with as much agility as the youngest of the tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Poets] Reference

And saw where this old tympan lay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

Under the tympan there is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Electricity] Reference

Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass] Reference

The four-double cylinder press, the hand-press, the frisket and tympan, the compositor’s stick and rule, type-setting, making up the forms, all the work of newspaper counters, folders, carriers, news-men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes, 90–99] Reference