Soun[d]ing alway the increase of his winning.
Chaucer.
Sound"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being sounded.
Sound"age (?; 48), n. Dues for soundings.
Sound"-board` (?), n. A sounding- board.
To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes.
Milton.
Sound"er (?), n. One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an
instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the
communications being read by sound.
Sound"er, n. (Zoöl.) A herd of wild hogs.
Sound"ing, a. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding
words. Dryden.
Sound"ing, n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of
the senses of the several verbs).
2. (Naut.) [From Sound to fathom.] (a) measurement by sounding; also,
the depth so ascertained. (b) Any place or part of the ocean, or other
water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the
plural. (c) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the
sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
Sounding lead, the plummet at the end of a sounding line. -- Sounding
line, a line having a plummet at the end, used in making soundings. --
Sounding post (Mus.), a small post in a violin, violoncello, or similar
instrument, set under the bridge as a support, for propagating the
sounds to the body of the instrument; -- called also sound post. --
Sounding rod (Naut.), a rod used to ascertain the depth of water in a
ship's hold. -- In soundings, within the eighty-fathom line. Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
Sound"ing-board` (?), n. 1. (Mus.) A thin board which propagates the
sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to
give distinctness to a speaker's voice.