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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..

Brazen :: Brazen (a.) Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass..

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

Sounding :: Sounding (n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural..

Cacophonious :: Cacophonious (a.) Harsh-sounding.

Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

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.].

Voiceful :: Voiceful (a.) Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.

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

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

Mark :: Mark (n.) One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called deeps..

Phoneidoscope :: Phoneidoscope (n.) An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations..

Equisonance :: Equisonance (n.) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

Altisonant :: Altisonant (a.) High-sounding; lofty or pompous.

Arming :: Arming (n.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom..

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

Sounding :: Sounding (a.) Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words..

Unison :: Unison (n.) Sounding alone.

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

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

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