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e issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother. Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son. Gen. xxi. 2.

of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents. To take me as for thy son in lawe. Chaucer.

A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance. [Obs.] Shak.

r surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n.

or one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.

A short and simple sonata.

Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

visitation of providence; an affliction or trial. [Obs.] Ye have enough, parde, of Goddes sond. Chaucer.

The musk shrew. See under Musk.

lasses established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescribed for the season of 1911, the aggregate of the length on water line, extreme beam, and extreme draft must be not more than 32 feet; the weight, not less than 4,035 pounds (without crew); the sail area, no…

hether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc. "That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets." Hawthorne.

The art of making songs or verse; metrical composition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.

Disposed to sing; full of song.

Consisting of songs. [R.] Dryden.

Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.

One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

A woman who sings; a female singing bird. Thomson.

A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.

Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.

The act of producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.