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Disposed to sing; full of song.

Consisting of songs. [R.] Dryden.

Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.

One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

A woman who sings; a female singing bird. Thomson.

A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.

Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.

The act of producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.

Being without a son. Marston. As no baron who was sonless could give a husband to his daughter, save with his lord's consent. J. R. Green.

A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.] Shak. He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius. Holland.

A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; -- usually in contempt. What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me! Pope.

A composer of sonnets.

A sonneter, or sonneteer. Bp. Hall.

To compose sonnets.

Like the sun; sunny; golden. [Obs.] "Her sonnish hairs." Chaucer.

See Sunnite.

An instrument for exhibiting the transverse vibrations of cords, and ascertaining the relations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box.…

armer parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.

Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body. [R.] I. Watts.

The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.