[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sound \sound\, v. i. oe. sounen, sownen, of. soner, suner, f.
   sonner, from l. sonare. see sound a noise.
   1. to make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of
      the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a
      perceptible effect. "and first taught speaking trumpets
      how to sound." --dryden.
      1913 webster

            how silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to
      convey intelligence by sound.
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            from you sounded out the word of the lord. --1
                                                  thess. i. 8.
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   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.
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            good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear
            things that do sound so fair?         --shak.
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   to sound in or to sound into, to tend to; to partake of
      the nature of; to be consonant with. obs., except in the
      phrase to sound in damages, below.
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            sounding in moral virtue was his speech.
                                                  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
sound to sound in to sound into to sound in damages 

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