sound (2), sounde, sund

[A. S. sur i (1) a swimming, (2) power to swim, (3) a strait of the sea; cogn. with Icel., Dan., Swed. & Ger. sund. Cf. Icel. sund - magi (lit. sound-maw) = the swimming bladder of a fish.] 1. A narrow pa age of water, as a strait between a mainland and an island, or a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. "To go farther up the sound and come back along the west shore."- Cook: Second Voyage, bk. iv., ch. viii. 2. The swimming or air-bladder of a fish. [COD SOUNDS.] 3. A name for the Cuttle-fish (q. v.). Sound-dues, s. pl . The sea-toll or dues formerly collected at Elsinore on all ve els pa ing the Sound between Denmark and Sweden. sound (3), subst. [Fr. sonde a sounding-line, a probe.] [SOUND (3), v.] Surg .: An instrument for exploring the cavities of the body. [LITHOTOMY-SOUND, PROBE, 8., 1.] *sound (1), #sounde, *soune (1), v. i. [SOUND, adj .] To become sound; to be cured or healed; to heal. "Though gyrte with many a wound That likely are never for to sound." Lydgate: Complaint of Black Knight. sound (2), *soune (2), *soun-en, sowne, v . i . & t . [Fr. sonner, from Lat. so no , from son us a sound (q. v.); Sp. sonar ; Ital. suonare .] A. Intransitive : 1. To make a sound or noise; to utter or emit a voice; to cause an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a particular effect. (1 Corinth . xv. 52.) IMG:content-1752.png:[blocks in formation] ment to give out a noise. 2. To play on an instrument; to cause an instruattracted by the electro-magnet or withdrawn by a "O baggepipe wel coude he blowe and soune." Chaucer: C. T., 567. (Prol.) *3. To be conveyed by or in sound; to be spread or published. convey an impre ion on narration. 4. To seem or appear when uttered; to appear or "The praises which he knew that he had not deserved ch. xxii. sounded to him like reproaches." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., IMG:content-1753.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To cause to make or emit a noise; to play on. "Sound all the lofty instruments of war." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt. 1., v. 2. 2. To utter audibly; to expre or pronounce; as, to sound a note with the voice. 3. To order or direct by a sound; to give a signal for by sound or noise. "Our author seems to sound a charge." -Dryden: Vir gil's Eneid. (Dedic.) 4. To spread or celebrate in sound or report; to spread abroad, to publish, to proclaim. *5. To declare, to tell, to describe. "No words can that woe sound." Shakesp .: Romeo and Juliet , iii. 2. *6. To signify, to mean, to import. "In Hebrew it sounds 'nakedne of aught, or any real nakedne ." -Mitton: Of Divorce. To sound in damages : To have the e ential quality of damages. (Said of an action brought, not for the recovery of any specific thing, as plevin, debt, ., but for damages only, as trespa .) sound (3), *sownde, v . t . & i . [Prob. from Fr. sonder to sound, try, prove, search the depth of, from a supposed Lat. subundo =to submerge, from sub =under, and und a a wave. But Skeat also points out that the Sp. sonda means not only a sounding-line, but also a sound or channel [SOUND (2), s.), and that the Fr. sonder was probably taken from the Scand in avian sund a sound; cf. A. S. sund - gyrd , sund - line =a sounding-rod or line.] A. Transitive : I. Ordinary Language : II. Technically : *sound, v. i. [SWOON.] spring, is limited by two stops, between which the end of the lever plays, and by the striking of which the sound is produced. sound-er (2), 8. [SWINE.] 1. A herd of wild swine. "We had just about finished eating, when a large sounder of pig-not le than twenty of all sizes, headed by a big boar-broke out of the jungle about eighty paces from us."- Field , April 4, 1885. *2. (See extract.) "A sounder (i. e., in the language of the period, a boar object of the chase."-Scott. Quentin Durward , ch. ix. of only two years old) had cro ed the track of the proper sound-ing (1), pr . par ., a . & 8. [SOUND (2) ".] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Lit .: Causing sound; making a noise; son or ous, resonant. "I am become as sounding bra , or a tinkling cymbal." -1 Corinthians xiii. 1. 2. Having a magnificent or lofty sound; high sounding, bombastic. "Keep to your subject close in all you say; Nor for a sounding sentence ever stray.' Dryden: Art of Poetry, i. C. As subst.: The act of emitting or causing a sound or noise.