Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sound \Sound\, v. i. [OE. sounen, sownen, OF. soner, suner, F.
   sonner, from L. sonare. See {Sound} a noise.]
   1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of
      the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a
      perceptible effect. ``And first taught speaking trumpets
      how to sound.'' --Dryden.

            How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues! --Shak.

   2. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to
      convey intelligence by sound.

            From you sounded out the word of the Lord. --1
                                                  Thess. i. 8.

   3. To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a
      certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as,
      this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an
      invention.

            Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things
            that do sound so fair?                --Shak.

   {To sound in} or {into}, to tend to; to partake of the nature
      of; to be consonant with. [Obs., except in the phrase To
      sound in damages, below.]

            Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
                                                  --Chaucer.

   {To sound in damages} (Law), to have the essential quality of
      damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the
      recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for
      damages only, as trespass, and the like.