Definition of sound

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

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Buccinal :: Buccinal (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
Sonorous :: Sonorous (a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.
Solidity :: Solidity (n.) The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness..
Fast :: Fast (v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
Sounder :: Sounder (n.) A herd of wild hogs.
Thunder :: Thunder (n.) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously..
Implosive :: Implosive (n.) An implosive sound, an implodent..
Multisonous :: Multisonous (a.) Having many sounds, or sounding much..
Umlaut :: Umlaut (n.) The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed..
Lunatic :: Lunatic (n.) A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind..
Fizz :: Fizz (n.) A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly..
Liquid :: Liquid (a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
Altiloquent :: Altiloquent (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech.
Participle :: Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles..
Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
Music :: Music (n.) The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear..
Judiciousness :: Judiciousness (n.) The quality or state of being judicious; sagacity; sound judgment.
Whack :: Whack (v. t.) To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.
Rhotacism :: Rhotacism (n.) An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were..
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