3. To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import,
when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh;
the story sounds like an invention.
Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound
so fair?
Shak.
To sound in or into, to tend to; to partake of the nature of; to be
consonant with. [Obs., except in the phrase To sound in damages,
below.]
Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
Chaucer.
-- To sound in damages (Law), to have the essential quality of damages.
This is said of an action brought, not for the recovery of a specific
thing, as replevin, etc., but for damages only, as trespass, and the
like.
Sound, v. t. 1. To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a
trumpet or a horn.
A bagpipe well could he play and soun[d].
Chaucer.
2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or
on an instrument.
3. To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to
give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound
a parley.
The clock sounded the hour of noon.
G. H. Lewes.
4. To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish
or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great
exploit.
5. To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit
sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to
sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.