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One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate ~), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.

From a place; hence. The sound is going away. Shak. Have me away, for I am sore wounded. 2 Chron. xxxv. 23.

, §§ 196,220.) It is etymologically related to p , v , f , w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr…

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

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

The sound produced by a sudden concussion.

The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin. [In this sense, commonly written bass.]

A bass, or deep, sound or tone.

The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.

A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.

An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.

The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.

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

To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] -- To beat into, to teach or ins…

Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.