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Abatvoix :: Abatvoix (n.) The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

Sonorous :: Sonorous (a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.

Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

Sounding :: Sounding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs)..

Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments..

Rant :: Rant (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher..

Multisonous :: Multisonous (a.) Having many sounds, or sounding much..

Sea-green :: Sea-green (a.) Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings..

Resonance :: Resonance (n.) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments..

Tubby :: Tubby (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin..

Fluctisonous :: Fluctisonous (a.) Sounding like waves.

Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].

Armisonous :: Armisonous (a.) Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.

High-sounding :: High-sounding (a.) Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles..

Fathom :: Fathom (n.) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings..

Roll :: Roll (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences..

Phonoscope :: Phonoscope (n.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by Konig for testing the quality of musical strings..

Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise..

Homophonous :: Homophonous (a.) Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic..

Buccinal :: Buccinal (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

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