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Definition of CHIME

Chime
Chime Chime, v. i. 1. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. And chime their sounding hammers. --Dryden. 2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. Chime his childish verse. --Byron.
Chime
Chime Chime, n. [See Chimb.] See Chine, n., 3.
Chime
Chime Chime, n. [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. ?. See Cymbal.] 1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. Instruments that made melodius chime. --Milton. 2. 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. We have heard the chimes at midnight. --Shak. 3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. ``Chimes of verse.' --Cowley.
Chime
Chime Chime, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chiming.] [See Chime, n.] 1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells. 2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. Everything chimed in with such a humor. --W. irving. 3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.] 4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. --Cowley

Meaning of CHIME from wikipedia

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