Definition of sounding

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

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Lead :: Lead (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea..
Abatvoix :: Abatvoix (n.) The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
Soundage :: Soundage (n.) Dues for soundings.
Sonorous :: Sonorous (a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.
Sea-green :: Sea-green (a.) Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings..
Sonorous :: Sonorous (a.) Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice..
Phonomotor :: Phonomotor (n.) An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.
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.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments..
Iotacism :: Iotacism (n.) The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding /, /, /, /, //, etc., like /..
Gong :: Gong (n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise..
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
Soniferous :: Soniferous (a.) Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.
Find :: Find (v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom..
Altiloquent :: Altiloquent (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech.
Sounding :: Sounding (n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom..
Blatant :: Blatant (a.) Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly..
Sounding :: Sounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soun.
Bellow :: Bellow (n.) A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar..
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