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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.

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

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

ass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

High-sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.

A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom. Totten.

Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [Obs.]

Not sounding or sounded. [R.] C. C. Felton.

ng the bass part of a musical composition. [See Illust. under Clef.] -- Bass voice, a deepsounding voice; a voice fitted for singing bass.

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.

A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.

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.

Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.

Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.

ng with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone.