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A sound; a note; a tone. "The tune of your voices." Shak.

To sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged.

To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle. Addison.

To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle. J. Fletcher.

A kind of kettledrum. [Written also trimbal.] A tymbal's sound were better than my voice. Prior.

h, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum. [Obs.] "Tympanized, as other saints of God were." Oley.

eing used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true primary vowel sound of U, in Anglo-Saxon, was the sound which it still retains in most of the languages of Europe, that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood, answering to the French ou in tour. Etymologically U is most closely relat…

The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.

ion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.

osed to take place, not in the direction of propagation, as in the air waves constituting sound, but transversely, and the various phenomena of refraction, polarization, interference, etc., are attributable to the different affections of these undulations in different circumstances of propagation. It is computed that t…

supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.

Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear. -- Un*grate"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*grate"ful*ness, n.

Having but one sound, as the drum. [R.]

Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.

Accordance of sounds; unison.

Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch.

Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2.

Incapable of being sounded. [Obs.]

Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased. -- Un*sound"ly, adv. -- Un*sound"ness, n.

Having no vowel sounds or signs. [Written also unvowelled.] Skinner.