Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Chime

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Chime


Subjects in this Topic:

(1):

(n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.

(2):

(n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.

(3):

(n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

(4):

(v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

(5):

(v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

(6):

(n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.

(7):

(n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

(8):

(n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.

(9):

(n.) See Chine, n., 3.

(10):

(n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.