Crossword clues for chiming
chiming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chime \Chime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chiming.] [See Chime, n.]
To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
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To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
Everything chimed in with such a humor.
--W. irving. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.]
To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
--Cowley
Wiktionary
n. An instance of chiming; a sound that chimes. vb. (present participle of chime English)
Usage examples of "chiming".
Like a chill, chiming whirlwind it gathered itself and drifted purposefully toward where the sunlight beckoned.
He never felt or heard the chill, chiming whirlwind that was more a wind than a body, more a shadow than a presence, and that, drifting purposefully, became the third shadow that evening to pass out the porter's door.
An unseen, chiming presence swept out of the trees and across the field, swirling like a mist or shadow, yet curiously elusive.
A sparkling occurred in the air where the blade of the hoe had passed through the wind, loud chiming sounded on all sides, then the shadowy wind overwhelmed Habaertus, howling around him like a hound closing on a kill.
One of them sobbed in sudden alarm as the chiming mist became a howling, tightening whirlwind encircling it.
It danced in the air in the whirling wake of the chiming mist for an eerie moment, then fell to the mud for other frightened farmers to find later.
In its wake, the wind sighed softly back together, not chiming even once.
In a sudden wash of frigid air and a chiming of tiny, bell-like sounds, the mist broke into a swirling stream and was gone out the door in a flash, leaving only a mournful snarl in its wake.
What could be chiming up here on the battlements at this time of night?
As men on the battlements screamed and cursed, something chill and chiming that had been coiled hungrily around a spire close by their heads fled in a misty parabola, to drift away low over the streets of Netnrar, cowering in the night.
He could hear it best to the west, somewhere very close by, a thin, aimless chiming sound.
When he judged the mist was near enough, he slashed at it and danced to one side, then planted himself to drive a vicious backhand back through its chiming whiteness.
The chiming mist had left the graveyard of the Frostfire Banner far behind, moving for miles along the deserted road to a place where most eyes would have missed the sapling-studded, overgrown remnants of a lane turning off into the woods.
Whatever it was, the whirlwind spun around and around it, almost as if deliberately hiding it from his view in its bright and chiming tatters, as it sped away across the room.
She had been hungry too long, and the incessant chiming was even getting on her nerves.