Dryden.
I've sounded my Numidians man by man.
Addison.
3. (Med.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to
examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion;
as, to sound a patient.
<! p. 1375 !>
Sound (?), v. i. To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line
or other device.
I sound as a shipman soundeth in the sea with his plummet to know
the depth of sea.
Palsgrave.
Sound, n. [F. sonde. See Sound to fathom.] (Med.) Any elongated
instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body
are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the
urethra for a stricture.
Sound, n. [OE. soun, OF. son, sun, F. son, fr. L. sonus akin to Skr.
svana sound, svan to sound, and perh. to E. swan. Cf. Assonant,
Consonant, Person, Sonata, Sonnet, Sonorous, Swan.] 1. The peceived
object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance
affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received
through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or
other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an
impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of
the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise;
report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid
sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.
The warlike sound Of trumpets loud and clarions.
Milton.
2. The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion
sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of
vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.
In this sense, sounds are spoken of as audible and inaudible.