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nt or phrase. Let us descend from generalities to particulars. Landor. The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. R. Choate.

and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise. O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. Longfellow.

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. [Obs.] Carew.

ll the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. -- To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.

ected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven. The hoarse resounding shore. Dryden.

Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic.

Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. [Obs.] Bailey.

ermination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars.

The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding Littré.

en they do not practice it themselves. Tillotson. Just intonation. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the va…

A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.

Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. "Liquid melody." Crashaw.

Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.

One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps." A man of mark, a conspicuous or eminent man. -- To make one's mark. (a) To sign, as a letter or other writing, by making a cross or other mark. (b) To m…

hether in the same part or in groups of parts. The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint. Grove.

Having many sounds, or sounding much.

To surpass in sounding.

An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.

An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.