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Skirling :: Skirling (n.) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.

Find :: Find (v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom..

Flageolet :: Flageolet (n.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..

Acoustically :: Acoustically (adv.) In relation to sound or to hearing.

Percussion :: Percussion (n.) The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate..

Lute :: Lute (v. i.) To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats..

Asonant :: Asonant (a.) Not sounding or sounded.

Osteophone :: Osteophone (n.) An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing..

Grating :: Grating (n.) A harsh sound caused by attrition.

Rant :: Rant (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics..

Drone :: Drone (n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound..

Acoustics :: Acoustics (n.) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws..

Soundage :: Soundage (n.) Dues for soundings.

Continuant :: Continuant (a.) Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound..

Sound :: Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound..

Semivocal :: Semivocal (a.) Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

Grate :: Grate (v. t.) To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing..

Cherup :: Cherup (v. t.) To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup..

Moan :: Moan (v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan..

Resound :: Resound (n.) Return of sound; echo.

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