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

Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of Steevens.

ture and antiquity. Hammond. The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall.

sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton.

An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

Want of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement.

s in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. Pulmonary resonance (Med.), the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. -- Vocal resonance (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking.

Accordance of sounds; unison.

sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity. [Obs.] Hammond.

An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

Discord; dissonance.

Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like. Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes. -- Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain relati…

ominant or some other chord; one not giving complete rest; a half close. -- Imperfect consonances (Mus.), chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth. -- Imperfect flower (Bot.), a flower wanting either stamens or pistils. Gray. -- Imperfect interval (Mus.), one a…

s in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance. Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals. -- Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse the base of the aperture…

Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.

alescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave. -- Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2,…

or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc. "The rule of propriety," Locke.

Resonance.