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Sound :: Sound (superl.) Undisturbed; deep; profound; as, sound sleep..

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..

Microphone :: Microphone (n.) An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations..

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

Epenthesis :: Epenthesis (n.) The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in nimble from AS. n/mol..

Drone :: Drone (v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth..

Eucrasy :: Eucrasy () Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness.

Swinge :: Swinge (v. t.) To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.

Vocalism :: Vocalism (n.) A vocalic sound.

Electrophone :: Electrophone (n.) An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents.

Blast :: Blast (n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath..

S :: S () the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it

Sibilate :: Sibilate (v. t. & i.) To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation..

Phonautograph :: Phonautograph (n.) An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate..

Lambdacism :: Lambdacism (n.) The use of the sound of l for that of r in pronunciation; lallation; as, Amelican for American..

Intone :: Intone (v. i.) To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate..

Roar :: Roar (n.) The sound of roaring.

Chime :: Chime (n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming..

Sesquialtera :: Sesquialtera (n.) A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reenforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant..

Grit :: Grit (v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind..

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