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Sound (?), n. [AS. sund a swimming, akin to E. swim. See Swim.] The air bladder of a fish; as, “cod sounds are an esteemed article of food”.
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Sound, n. (Zool.) A cuttlefish. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
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Sound, a. [Compar. Sounder (?); superl. Soundest.] [OE. sound, AS. sund; akin to D. gezond, G. gesund, OHG. gisunt, Dan. & Sw. sund, and perhaps to L. sanus. Cf. Sane.]
1. Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, “sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship”.
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2. Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, “a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding”.
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3. Firm; strong; safe.
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The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams,
And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound. Chapman.
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4. Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, “a sound lawyer; a sound thinker”.
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Do not I know you a favorer
Of this new seat? Ye are nor sound. Shak.
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5. Founded in truth or right; supported by justice; not to be overthrown on refuted; not fallacious; as, “sound argument or reasoning; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles”.
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Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me. 2 Tim. i. 13.
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6. heavy; laid on with force; as, “a sound beating”.
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7. Undisturbed; deep; profound; as, “sound sleep”.
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8. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, “a sound title to land”.
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☞ Sound is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sound-headed, sound-hearted, sound-timbered, etc.
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Sound currency (Com.), a currency whose actual value is the same as its nominal value; a currency which does not deteriorate or depreciate or fluctuate in comparision with the standard of values.
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Sound, adv. Soundly.
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So sound he slept that naught might him awake. Spenser.
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Sound, n. [AS. sund a narrow sea or strait; akin to Icel., Sw., Dan. & G. sund, probably so named because it could be swum across. See Swim.] (Geog.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, “the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound”.
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The Sound of Denmark, where ships pay toll. Camden.
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Sound dues, tolls formerly imposed by Denmark on vessels passing through the Baltic Sound.
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Sound, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Sounding.] [F. sonder; cf. AS. sundgyrd a sounding rod, sundline a sounding line (see Sound a narrow passage of water).]
1. To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.
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2. Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
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I was in jest,
And by that offer meant to sound your breast. Dryden.
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I've sounded my Numidians man by man. Addison.
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3. (Med.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, “to sound a patient”.
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Sound (?), v. i. To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
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I sound as a shipman soundeth in the sea with his plummet to know the depth of sea. Palsgrave.
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Sound, n. [F. sonde. See Sound to fathom.] (Med.) Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.
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Sound, n. [OE. soun, OF. son, sun, F. son, fr. L. sonus akin to Skr. svana sound, svan to sound, and perh. to E. swan. Cf. Assonant, Consonant, Person, Sonata, Sonnet, Sonorous, Swan.]
1. The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, “the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound”.
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The warlike sound
Of trumpets loud and clarions. Milton.
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2. The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, “a treatise on sound”.
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☞ In this sense, sounds are spoken of as audible and inaudible.
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3. Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.
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Sense and not sound . . . must be the principle. Locke.
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Sound boarding, boards for holding pugging, placed in partitions of under floors in order to deaden sounds. -- Sound bow, in a series of transverse sections of a bell, that segment against which the clapper strikes, being the part which is most efficacious in producing the sound. See Illust. of Bell. -- Sound post. (Mus.) See Sounding post, under Sounding.
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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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Sound, v. t.
1. To cause to make a noise; to play on; as, “to sound a trumpet or a horn; to sound an alarm”.
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A bagpipe well could he play and soun[d]. Chaucer.
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2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, “to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument”.
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3. To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, “to sound a retreat; to sound a parley”.
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The clock sounded the hour of noon. G. H. Lewes.
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4. To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, “to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit”.
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5. To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, “to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient”.
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6. To signify; to import; to denote. [Obs.] Milton.
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Soun[d]ing alway the increase of his winning. Chaucer.
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