CHIME, noun 1. The consonant or harmonic sounds of several correspondent instruments. Instruments that made melodious chime 2. Correspondence of sound. Love - harmonized the chime 3. The musical sounds of bells, struck with hammers. 4. Correspondence of proportion or relation. 5. A kind of periodical music, or tune of a clock, produced by an apparatus annexed to it. 6. A set of bells which chime or ring in harmony. CHIME, verb intransitive 1. To sound in consonance or harmony; to accord. To make the rough recital aptly chime 2. To correspond in relation or proportion. Father and son, husband and wife, correlative terms, do readily chime 3. To agree; to fall in with. He often chimed in with the discourse. 4. To agree; to suit with. 5. To jingle; to clatter. The sely tonge may wel ringe and chimbe. CHIME, verb transitive 1. To move, strike, or cause to sound in harmony. 2. To strike or cause to sound, as a set of bells. CHIME, noun The edge or brim of a cask or tub, formed by the ends of the staves.
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