Chime

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see Chine, ·noun, 3.

II. Chime ·noun To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

III. Chime ·vi To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

IV. Chime ·noun The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.

V. Chime ·noun Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.

VI. Chime ·noun To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

VII. Chime ·noun To join in a conversation; to express assent;

— followed by in or in with.

VIII. Chime ·vi To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

IX. Chime ·noun To be in harmony; to Agree; to Suit; to Harmonize; to Correspond; to fall in with.

X. Chime ·noun 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.

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