Chime | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Chīme, n.

noun

n. [O. Eng. chimbe, chime, Dan. kimen, chiming, tolling of a bell, kime, to chime, Sw. kimma, kimba, from L. Lat. & It. campana, bell, whence It. scampanare, to chime. See CAMPANILE.]

Sense 1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of other musical instruments.

We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shak.

Sense 2. A set of bells musically tuned to one another.

Sense 3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. “Chimes of verse.” Cooley.

Chime, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. CHIMED; p. pr. & vb. n. CHIMING.] See CHIMB.

To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond.

Every thing chimed in with such a humor. W. Irving. 3. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. Cooley.

Chīme, v. t.

verbtransitive

To move, strike, or cause to sound in harmony, as a set of bells arranged as a chime.

Chīme, n.

noun

[See CHIMB.] The edge or brim of a cask or tub, formed by the ends of the staves.