Chime \Chime\, v. 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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Chime \Chime\, n. [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble,
in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr.
Gr. ?. 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. --Shak.
3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
``Chimes of verse.'' --Cowley.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Chime \Chime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chimed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Chiming.]
[See Chime, n.]
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
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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