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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.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

ke a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. The bellowing voice of boiling seas. Dryden.

Excessive or extended use of the b sound in speech, due to conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

To beat or thump soundly. Shak.

a phonograph so that the moving figures on the screen are accompanied by the appropriate sounds.

A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.

A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.

Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with bladders of philosophy." Rochester. Bladder nut, or Bladder tree (Bot.), a genus of plants (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods. -- Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods. -- Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea),…

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

The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. Bryant.

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

Blessed. "This patriarch blest." Milton. White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.