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To cause to sound or ring. To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

me through the brain a phonetic expression; -- jocosely so called from the analogy of the sound of a bell induced by the stroke of the clapper.

A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong.

ove by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly Shak.

Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds mBacon. Apple of discord. See under Apple…

Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds. For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. Longfellow.

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.

n of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low. Moses distinguished the causes of the flood into those that belong to the heavens, and those that belong to the earth. T. Burnet.

To strike or sound through. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

A sounding through.

Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety. "Diversity of sounds." Shak. "Diversities of opinion." Secker.

lly the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak.

he mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound. Down the country, toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.

Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.

A falling in drops, or the sound so made.

That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as:

he lips. Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory. H. Spencer. When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. Bryant.

To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.