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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.

from a lopped belt attached to the gun; -- popularly so called from its peculiar drumming sound in action. Sometimes, any of other similar automatic cannons.

To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written also pummel.]

A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop. Addison.

In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone.

ry or constant use; state of being used. Obsolete words may be revived when they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice. Dryden.

Preceding; introductory; precursory. "A deep precursive sound." Coleridge.

Preceding the diastole of the heart; as, a prediastolic friction sound.