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me by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.

Being in unison; unisonant. -- U*nis"o*nal*ly, adv.

Accordance of sounds; unison.

Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch.

Being in unison; unisonant. Busby.

To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enem…

rly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.

roduce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. A beating wind (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. -- To beat about, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. Addison. -- To beat about the bush, to approach a subject circuit…

A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals. [Sometimes written chorale.]

The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. "The dip of oars in unison." Glover.

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

Gregorian year (below). -- Gregorian chant (Mus.), plain song, or canto fermo, a kind of unisonous music, according to the eight celebrated church modes, as arranged and prescribed by Pope Gregory I. (called "the Great") in the 6th century. -- Gregorian modes, the musical scales ordained by Pope Gregory the Great, an…

Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic.

Sameness of sound; unison.

nstead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.

concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent 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 aliqu…

orian chant, or canto fermo; the prescribed melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison, in tones of equal length, and rarely extending beyond the compass of an octave. (b) A simple melody. -- Plain speaking, plainness or bluntness of speech.

catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.

Appetite. [Obs.] Swift. To keep stroke, to make strokes in unison. The oars where silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. Shak.

over or under which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.