Sound-board
(Sound"-board`) n. A sounding- board.
To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes.
Milton. Sounder
(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.
Sounder
(Sound"er), n. (Zoöl.) A herd of wild hogs.
Sounding
(Sound"ing), a. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. Dryden.
Sounding
(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.
Sounding-board
(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.
3. pl. See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.
Soundless
(Sound"less) a. Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
Soundless
(Sound"less), a. Having no sound; noiseless; silent. — Sound"less*ly, adv. — Sound"less*ness,
n.
Soundly
(Sound"ly), adv. In a sound manner.
Soundness
(Sound"ness), n. The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit,
of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.
Syn. — Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
Soune
(Soune) v. t. & i. To sound. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sounst
(Sounst) a. Soused. See Souse. [Obs.]
Soup
(Soup) n. [F. soupe, OF. sope, supe, soupe, perhaps originally, a piece of bread; probably of
Teutonic origin; cf. D. sop sop, G. suppe soup. See Sop something dipped in a liquid, and cf. Supper.]
A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, —
commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.
