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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Sound \Sound\, v. i. [OE. sounen, sownen, OF. soner, suner, F.
sonner, from L. sonare. See Sound a noise.]
1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of
the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a
perceptible effect. ``And first taught speaking trumpets
how to sound.'' --Dryden.
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How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues! --Shak.
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2. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to
convey intelligence by sound.
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From you sounded out the word of the Lord. --1
Thess. i. 8.
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3. To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a
certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as,
this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an
invention.
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Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear
Things that do sound so fair? --Shak.
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To sound in or To sound into, to tend to; to partake of
the nature of; to be consonant with. [Obs., except in the
phrase To sound in damages, below.]
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Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
--Chaucer.
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To sound in damages (Law), to have the essential quality of
damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the
recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for
damages only, as trespass, and the like.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Sound \Sound\, v. i. [OE. sounen, sownen, OF. soner, suner, F.
sonner, from L. sonare. See Sound a noise.]
1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of
the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a
perceptible effect. ``And first taught speaking trumpets
how to sound.'' --Dryden.
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues! --Shak.
2. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to
convey intelligence by sound.
From you sounded out the word of the Lord. --1
Thess. i. 8.
3. To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a
certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as,
this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an
invention.
Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things
that do sound so fair? --Shak.
To sound in or into, to tend to; to partake of the nature
of; to be consonant with. [Obs., except in the phrase To
sound in damages, below.]
Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
--Chaucer.
To sound in damages (Law), to have the essential quality of
damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the
recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for
damages only, as trespass, and the like.
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