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Resounding :: Resounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resoun.

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..

Semivocal :: Semivocal (a.) Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

Resonance :: Resonance (n.) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments..

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

Dissonant :: Dissonant (a.) Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.

Plummet :: Plummet (n.) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water..

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..

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.

Seraphine :: Seraphine (n.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument..

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

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

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

Whack :: Whack (v. t.) To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.

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

Bathometer :: Bathometer (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line..

Equisonance :: Equisonance (n.) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

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

Tubby :: Tubby (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin..

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 /..

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