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

Booming :: Booming (a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.

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..

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

Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

Sonant :: Sonant (a.) Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

Bombast :: Bombast (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

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..

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

Rant :: Rant (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics..

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.

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

Outsound :: Outsound (v. t.) To surpass in sounding.

Armisonous :: Armisonous (a.) Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.

Halsening :: Halsening (a.) Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough.

Sonorous :: Sonorous (a.) Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice..

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

Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

Gong :: Gong (n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise..

Bombastical :: Bombastical (a.) Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.

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