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

Sound :: Sound (n.) Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture..

Sound :: Sound (n.) The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a h

Sound :: Sound (n.) The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound..

Sound :: Sound (n.) Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.

Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.

Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.

Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention..

Sound :: Sound (v. t.) To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn..

Sound :: Sound (v. t.) To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument..

Sound :: Sound (v. t.) To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley..

Sound :: Sound (v. t.) To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit..

Sound :: Sound (v. t.) To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient..

Sound :: Sound (v. t.) To signify; to import; to denote.

Sound-board :: Sound-board (n.) A sounding-board.

Soundable :: Soundable (a.) Capable of being sounded.

Soundage :: Soundage (n.) Dues for soundings.

Sounded :: Sounded (imp. & p. p.) of Soun.

Sounder :: Sounder (n.) One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound..

Sounder :: Sounder (n.) A herd of wild hogs.

Sounding :: Sounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soun.

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

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

Sounding :: Sounding (n.) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained..

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..

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

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

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.

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

Soundless :: Soundless (a.) Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable.

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