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Webster 1913 Edition
Chime
Chime
(chīm)
, Noun.
[OE.
chimbe
, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe
, cymble
, in a dialectic form, chymble
, F. cymbale
, L. cymbalum
, fr. Gr. κύμβαλον
. See Cymbal
.] 1.
The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
Instruments that made melodius
chime
. Milton.
2.
A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the
pl.
, the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions. We have heard the
chimes
at midnight. Shakespeare
3.
Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
“Chimes of verse.” Cowley.
1.
To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
2.
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.
3.
To join in a conversation; to express assent; – followed by in or in with.
[Colloq.]
4.
To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
Cowley
Chime
,Verb.
I.
1.
To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
And
chime
their sounding hammers. Dryden.
2.
To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
Chime
his childish verse. Byron.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chime
CHIME
,Noun.
1.
The consonant or harmonic sounds of several correspondent instruments.Instruments that made melodious chime.
2.
Correspondence of sound.Love - harmonized the chime.
3.
The musical sounds of bells, struck with hammers.4.
Correspondence of proportion or relation.5.
A kind of periodical music, or tune of a clock, produced by an apparatus annexed to it.6.
A set of bells which chime, or ring in harmony.