chime

n. [ OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. ky`mbalon. See Cymbal. ] 1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Instruments that made melodius chime. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. “Chimes of verse.” Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Chimed p. pr. & vb. n. Chiming. ] [ See Chime, n. ] 1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Everything chimed in with such a humor. W. irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. Cowley [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And chime their sounding hammers. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chime his childish verse. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who chimes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Chimeras [ L. chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Gr. &unr_; a she-goat, a chimera, fr. &unr_; he-goat; cf. Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe. ] 1. (Myth.) 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. “Dire chimeras and enchanted isles.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chamarre., F. simarre (cf. It. zimarra), fr. Sp. chamarra, zamarra, a coat made of sheepskins, a sheepskin, perh. from Ar. sammūr the Scythian weasel or marten, the sable. Cf. Simarre. ] The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Chimerical. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive. [ 1913 Webster ]