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Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

isting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." Milton. Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak.

Emitting a high, shrill sound.

A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain. "The pitapat of a pretty foot." Dryden.

To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams. [Obs.] R. Greene.

A sound like that of alternating light beats. Also, a pattering of words.

The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound. [R.]

Act of plopping; the sound made in plopping.

Act of ploutering; floundering; act or sound of splashing. [Scot. & Dial.Eng.]

To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test. He did not attempt to plumb his intellect. Ld. Lytton.

A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water. I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Shak.

Act or sound of plunking. [Colloq.]

reater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands. Shak. The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. Shak.

Multiplying or magnifying sound. -- n.

The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced red or rèd.

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

A proficient in the art of multiplying sounds; a ventriloquist.

Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.