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The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.

Capable of being sounded.

Dues for soundings.

One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.

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

An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.

A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.

Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.

In a sound manner.

The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.

A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.

To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.

To surpass in sounding.

To sound again or anew.

To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.

Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased. -- Un*sound"ly, adv. -- Un*sound"ness, n.

itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several different v…

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.