The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sound \Sound\, v. i. [OE. sounen, sownen, OF. soner, suner, F. sonner, from L. sonare. See Sound a noise.]
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To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect. ``And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound.''
--Dryden.How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!
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To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
From you sounded out the word of the Lord.
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To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.
Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair?
--Shak.To sound in or To sound into, to tend to; to partake of the nature of; to be consonant with. [Obs., except in the phrase To sound in damages, below.]
Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
--Chaucer.To sound in damages (Law), to have the essential quality of damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for damages only, as trespass, and the like.
Usage examples of "to sound in".
A confusion of noises from very far away began to sound in his ears.
Rather, her voice trembled hoarsely, as though she had to force it to sound in the direction of a male being and was doing so against all her instincts and desires.
As Spyder spoke, however, a loud alarm began to sound in the back of my mind.
As Spyder spoke, however, a loud alarm began to sound in the back of my mind .