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olled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

A reverential salutation. Their loud applause and aves vehement. Shak.

Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. Azure stone (Min.), the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.

part, as of a mountain or ridge. [The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds. Milton.

musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15.

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.

To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blaows; to knock vigorously or loudly. The men of the city . . . beat at the door. Judges. xix. 22.

as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton.

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. As loud as belleth wind in hell. Chaucer. The wild buck bells from ferny brake. Sir W. Scott.

To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. Garth.

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. Shak.

To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South.

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. "The trumpet blared." Tennyson.