clapper strikes, being the part which is most efficacious in producing the sound. See Illust. of Bell. —
Sound post. (Mus.) See Sounding post, under Sounding.
Sound
(Sound), v. i. [OE. sounen, sownen, OF. soner, suner, F. sonner, from L. sonare. See Sound
a noise.]
1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing
with a perceptible effect. "And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound." Dryden.
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!
Shak. 2. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
From you sounded out the word of the Lord.
1 Thess. i. 8. 3. To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to
appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.
Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear
Things that do sound so fair?
Shak. To sound in or into, to tend to; to partake of the nature of; to be consonant with. [Obs., except in the
phrase To sound in damages, below.]
Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
Chaucer. —
To sound in damages (Law), to have the essential quality of damages. This is said of an action
brought, not for the recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for damages only, as trespass, and
the like.
Sound
(Sound), v. t.
1. To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.
A bagpipe well could he play and soun[d].
Chaucer. 2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.
3. To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as,
to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.
The clock sounded the hour of noon.
G. H. Lewes. 4. To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the
praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.
5. To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as,
to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.
6. To signify; to import; to denote. [Obs.] Milton.
Soun[d]ing alway the increase of his winning.
Chaucer. Soundable
(Sound"a*ble) a. Capable of being sounded.
Soundage
(Sound"age) n. Dues for soundings.
