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Lead :: Lead (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea..

Sounding :: Sounding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs)..

Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].

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..

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

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

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..

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

Resonance :: Resonance (n.) The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

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

Phoneidoscope :: Phoneidoscope (n.) An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations..

Fathom :: Fathom (n.) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings..

Argentine :: Argentine (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery..

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

Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

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

Resonant :: Resonant (a.) Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back..

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

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

Intonation :: Intonation (n.) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

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