Defn: Chime. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CHIME
Chime, n. Etym: [See Chimb.]
Defn: See Chine, n., 3.
CHIME Chime, n. Etym: [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. 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, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chiming.] Etym:
[See Chime, n.]
1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
2. To be in harmony; to agree; to sut; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. Everything chimed in with such a humor. W. irving.