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noun

Chimb n. (Written also chime) The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.

Chime n. See Chine, n., 3.

Chime n.

1.

The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. "Instruments that made melodius chime."

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."

3.

Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse."

verb

Chime v. i. (past & past part. chimed; pres. part. chiming)

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."

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.

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."

2.

To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. "Chime his childish verse."

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"Chime" Quotes from Famous Books

... mistake. We were sitting in dejected rows, with a number of other foreigners who had been similarly reduced, when this official entered the waiting-room, advanced to the middle of it, posed with great majesty, and emitted several bars of a kind of chant or chime. It was delivered with too much vigour, and it stopped too abruptly, to be entirely enjoyable; but there was no doubt about the musical intention. It was not even intoning; it was singing, beginning with moderation, ...

— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan

... dillies and lilies must be read with a slight accentuation of the last syllable (permissible then), in order to chime with delice. In the first line I have put here instead of hether, which (like other words where th comes between two vowels) was then very often a monosyllable, in order to throw the accent back more strongly on bring, ...

— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell

... Michael's struck two, then it chimed the quarter after and almost on the chime Phyl sat up. It was as though she had suddenly come to a resolve. She clasped her hands together for a moment, then she rose, gathered up the letters and put them away, all except one which she held in her hand as though to give her courage for what she was about to do. She carefully ...

— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... over outstretch'd limbs, And in her thousand thousand colours drest, Plays round the grassy couch of noontide rest: Here GILES for hours of indolence atones With strong exertion, and with weary bones, And knows no leisure; till the distant chime Of Sabbath bells he hears at sermon time, That down the brook sound sweetly in the gale, Or strike the rising hill, or ...

— The Farmer's Boy - A Rural Poem • Robert Bloomfield

... first repelled as being too obscurely and almost fantastically expressed. Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza. And since, after being the hardest of all to admit, it has become one of the best liked, I am forced in fairness to ask myself if hundreds of lines of Mr. Meredith's which now seem crabbed or fantastic ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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