The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams,
And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound. Chapman.

Do not I know you a favorer
Of this new seat? Ye are nor sound. Shak.

Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me. 2 Tim. i. 13.

* Sound is sometimes used in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as, sound-headed, sound-hearted, sound-timbered, etc.

Sound currency (Com.), a currency whose actual value is the same as its nominal value; a currency which does not deteriorate or depreciate or fluctuate in comparision with the standard of values.

So sound he slept that naught might him awake. Spenser.

The Sound of Denmark, where ships pay toll. Camden.

Sound dues, tolls formerly imposed by Denmark on vessels passing through the Baltic Sound.

I was in jest,
And by that offer meant to sound your breast. Dryden.

I've sounded my Numidians man by man. Addison.

I sound as a shipman soundeth in the sea with his plummet to know the depth of sea. Palsgrave.

The warlike sound
Of trumpets loud and clarions. Milton.

* In this sense, sounds are spoken of as audible and inaudible.

Sense and not sound . . . must be the principle. Locke.

Sound boarding, boards for holding pugging, placed in partitions of under floors in order to deaden sounds. - - Sound bow, in a series of transverse sections of a bell, that segment against which the clapper strikes, being the part which is most efficacious in producing the sound. See Illust. of Bell. -- Sound post. (Mus.) See Sounding post, under Sounding.

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues! Shak.

From you sounded out the word of the Lord. 1 Thess. i. 8.

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.

A bagpipe well could he play and soun[d]. Chaucer.

The clock sounded the hour of noon. G. H. Lewes.

Soun[d]ing alway the increase of his winning. Chaucer.