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Knell :: Knell (n.) To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen..

Buzz :: Buzz (v. t.) To sound forth by buzzing.

Twang :: Twang (v. t.) To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly..

Spinet :: Spinet (n.) A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used..

Whack :: Whack (n.) A smart resounding blow.

Fricative :: Fricative (n.) A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc..

Clink :: Clink (v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together..

Microcoustic :: Microcoustic (n.) An instrument for making faint sounds audible, as to a partially deaf person..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock..

Bumblebee :: Bumblebee (n.) A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound..

Generator :: Generator (n.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.

Murmur :: Murmur (v. i.) A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water..

Acute :: Acute (a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent..

Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

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

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

Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ..

Tingle :: Tingle (v. i.) To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound..

Timbrelled :: Timbrelled (a.) Sung to the sound of the timbrel.

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