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n other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. Pulmonary resonance (Med.), the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. -- Vocal resonance (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking.

The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne.

Vengeance; revenge. [Obs.]

The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22.

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a he…

One who romances.

One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. -- Rope"dan`cing, n.

Salience. [Obs.]

See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus.

The substance of the medullary sheath.

A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.

Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.

An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.

Reliance on one's own powers or judgment; self-trust.

Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. Fairfax.

The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. Milman.

The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation. Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. Lowell.

That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.

A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached. [Obs.]

A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance. [Obs.] Shak.