CHIME, n. 1. The consonant or harmonic sounds of several correspondent instruments.Instruments that made melodious chime.2. Correspondence of sound.Love - harmonized the chime.3. The musical sounds of bells, struck with hammers.4. Correspondence of proportion or relation.5. A kind of periodical music, or tune of a clock, produced by an apparatus annexed to it.6. A set of bells which chime, or ring in harmony.
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