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Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.

r a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

Harsh-sounding.

ny; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. And chime their sounding hammers. Dryden.

ogether so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

ii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden.

or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.

Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left. On sounding wings a dexter eagle flew. Pope.

m. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

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

A sounding through.

Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them. Fuller. Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart. R. L. Stevenson.

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

Pleasing or sweet in sound; euphonic; smooth-sounding. Hallam. -- Eu*pho"ni*ous*ly, adv.

s arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.

To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.

Sounding like waves.

An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.