Definition of sound

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Sound (v. t.) Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe..

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Bell :: Bell (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck..
Vocalize :: Vocalize (v. t.) To practice singing on the vowel sounds.
Offensive :: Offensive (a.) Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds..
Ironsmith :: Ironsmith (n.) An East Indian barbet (Megalaima faber), inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith..
Chime :: Chime (n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming..
Knell :: Knell (n.) The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything..
Luny :: Luny (a.) Crazy; mentally unsound.
Hollow :: Hollow (a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar..
Able-bodied :: Able-bodied (a.) Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust..
Jingle :: Jingle (v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..
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..
Ring :: Ring (n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell..
Corrupt :: Corrupt (a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Triphthongal :: Triphthongal (a.) Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.
Quack :: Quack (n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise..
Haw :: Haw (n.) An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made..
Tremble :: Tremble (v. i.) To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles..
Shrilly :: Shrilly (adv.) In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.
Pure :: Pure (superl.) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants..
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