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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..

Bathymetry :: Bathymetry (n.) The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea..

Sounding :: Sounding (n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom..

Halsening :: Halsening (a.) Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough.

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..

Sonant :: Sonant (a.) Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

Altiloquent :: Altiloquent (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech.

Booming :: Booming (a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.

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

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

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

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

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..

Swashway :: Swashing (a.) Resounding; crushing.

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

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

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

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

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..

Liquid :: Liquid (a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.

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