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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.
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2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to
correspond; to fall in with.
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Everything chimed in with such a humor. --W. irving.
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3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed
by in or in with. [Colloq.]
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4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in
rhyming. --Cowley
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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.
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And chime their sounding hammers. --Dryden.
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2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
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Chime his childish verse. --Byron.
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Chimb \Chimb\ (ch[imac]m), n. [AS. cim, in cimst[=a]n base of a
pillar; akin to D. kim, f. Sw. kim., G. kimme f.]
The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See {Chine}, n., 3.
[Written also {chime}.]
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Chime \Chime\ (ch[imac]m), n. [See {Chimb}.]
See {Chine}, n., 3.
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Chime \Chime\ (ch[imac]m), n. [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF.
cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L.
cymbalum, fr. Gr. ky`mbalon. See {Cymbal}.]
1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
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Instruments that made melodius chime. --Milton.
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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.
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We have heard the chimes at midnight. --Shak.
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3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
"Chimes of verse." --Cowley.
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