chim

a. [ Chimæra + old. ] (Zool.) Related to, or like, the chimæra. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Native name ] (Zool.) A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. Chime. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cim, in cimstān base of a pillar; akin to D. kim, f. Sw. kim., G. kimme f. ] The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3. [ Written also chime. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 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. [ See Chimb. ] See Chine, n., 3. [ 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 ]