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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chime \Chime\, n. [See {Chimb}.] See {Chine}, n., 3. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: chime n : a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer [syn: {bell}, {gong}] v : of bells, chimes, and gongs
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