sonority

[SONOROUS.] Sonorousne . "There is at this moment no baritone to be compared for mellow richne and sonority to his." - London Globe. să-nör-oŭs, a. [Lat. sonorus =loud sounding, from son or (gen it, sonoris ) =sound; O. Fr. sonoreux; Fr. sonore; Sp. & Ital. sonoro.] 1. Giving out sound, as when struck; resonant, sounding. "All the while Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds." Milton P. L. , i. 540. 2. Loud sounding; giving a clear, loud, or full volumed sound. *3. Yielding sound; characterized by sound; sonant; as, The vowels are sonorous . ( Dryden .) 4. High-sounding; magnificent of sound. "His expre ions are sonorous and more noble; his verse more numerous, and his words are suitable to his thoughts, sublime and lofty."-Dryden. Juvenal. (Ded.) Sonorous is properly applied to bodies which produce or originate sound; soniferous to bodies which convey the sound, or rather the vibrations of the sound to the ear. sonorous-figures, s. pl . "George Whetston, a sonnet-writer of some rank."_ fine powder, the powder will form figures standing Warton: Hist. Eng . Poetry , iii. 483. *son-nět, v . i . & t . [SONNET, 8.] A. In trans.: To compose sonnets. B. Trans.: To compose sonnets in honor of. "They sonneted her."-St. James's Gazette , Feb. 14, 1887. son-net eer', s. [Ital. sonettiere ; Fr. sonne tier.] A composer or writer of sonnets or small poems; a small or petty poet. "And shows, di olved in thine own melting tears, The maudlin prince of mournful sonneteers." Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. son-nět-eër, v . i . [SONNETEER, s .] To compose sonnets; to rhyme. *son-nět-ing, s. [Eng. sonnet; -ing.] The act of composing sonnets; the act of singing. "Tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 3. sõn'-net-ist, s . [Eng. sonnet; -ist.] A son neteer "Great Solomon sings in the heavenly quire, And is become a new-found sonnet ist ." Bishop Hall : Satires , i. 8. son-nět-ize, v. i. & t. [Eng. sonnet; -ize.] A. In trans.: To compose or write sonnets. B. Trans. To celebrate in a sonnet or sonnets. "Now could I sonnetize thy piteous plight."- Southey : Nondescripts, v. *son-nish, adj . [Mid. Eng. sonne sun; -ish .] Like the sun or its beams; sunny. son-nite, s. [SUNNITE.]