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Chime [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The consonant or harmonic sounds of several correspondent instruments.

2. Instruments that made melodious chime

3. Correspondence of sound.

4. Love - harmonized the chime

5. The musical sounds of bells, struck with hammers.

6. Correspondence of proportion or relation.

7. A kind of periodical music, or tune of a clock, produced by an apparatus annexed to it.

8. A set of bells which chime or ring in harmony.

9. The edge or brim of a cask or tub, formed by the ends of the staves.

Chime [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To sound in consonance or harmony; to accord.

2. To make the rough recital aptly chime

3. To correspond in relation or proportion.

4. Father and son, husband and wife, correlative terms, do readily chime

5. To agree; to fall in with.

6. He often chimed in with the discourse.

7. To agree; to suit with.

8. To jingle; to clatter.

9. The sely tonge may wel ringe and chimbe.

Chime [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To move, strike, or cause to sound in harmony.

2. To strike or cause to sound, as a set of bells.

Chime [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. See Chine, n., 3.

2. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.

3. A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.

4. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.

5. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

6. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.

7. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.

8. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

Chime [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

Chimed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Chime

Chimer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who chimes.

Chimer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who chimes.

Chimera [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In fabulous history, a monster with three heads, that of a lion, of a goat, and of a dragon, vomiting flames. The foreparts of the body wee those of a lion, the middle was that of a goat, and the hinder parts were those of a dragon; supposed to represent a volcanic mountain in Lycia, whose top was the resort of lions, the middle, that of goats, and the foot, that of serpents. Hence,

2. In modern usage, a vain or idle fancy; a creature of the imagination, composed of contradictions or absurdities, that can have no existence except in thought.

Chimera [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.

Chimeras [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Chimera

Chimere [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.

Chimeric [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Chimerical.

Chimerical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; that has, or can have no existence except in thought.

Chimerical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.

Chimerically [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wildly; vainly; fancifully; fantastically.

Chimerically [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wildy; vainly; fancifully.