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Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.

Not clear or melodious.

h small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and spec…

ght, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot.

A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

Having a loud and sonorous voice. "Deep-mouthed dogs." Dryden.

ds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.

To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.

To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate. Pope.

n of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i. The act of laughter, which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally withi…

To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner. "Mouthing big phrases." Hare. Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. Tennyson.

olution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.

quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. Byron.

To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. Chaucer. Why ring not out the bells Shak.

A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being e…

The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.

Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. Dryden.

Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. Dunglison.

Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous. -- Thun"der*ous*ly, adv.