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To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch." South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.

To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange.

The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.

A fish that makes a sound when caught; as:

Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker.

A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice.

The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only. Songs . . . not all ungrateful to thine ear. Tennyson.

A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. The babbling echo mocks the hounds. Shak. The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. Pope.

A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals. J. J. Rousseau.

The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.

An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Knight.

The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents.

To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.

hat in which the medicine enters the system through the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister.

To utter; to articulate. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently. A. M. Bell.

The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. nemol.

Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound.

An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

Of the same or like sound.