chime

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The rim of a cask.
• noun An apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound.
• noun Music A set of tuned bells used as an orchestral instrument.
• noun A single bell, as in the mechanism of a clock.
• noun The sound produced by or as if by a bell or bells.
• noun Agreement; accord.
• intransitive verb To sound with a harmonious ring when struck.
• intransitive verb To make a musical sound by striking a bell or set of bells.
• intransitive verb To be in agreement or accord: harmonize.
• intransitive verb To produce (music) by striking bells.
• intransitive verb To strike (a bell) to produce music.
• intransitive verb To signal or make known by chiming.
• intransitive verb To call, send, or welcome by chiming.
• intransitive verb To repeat insistently.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To ring as a bell; jingle; jangle.
• To ring as bells in unison; sound in consonance, rhythm, or harmony; give out harmonious sounds; accord.
• To agree; suit; harmonize: absolutely or with with.
• To cause to sound harmoniously, as a set of bells; strike with or move to measure.
• To utter harmoniously; recite with rhythmical flow.
• Nautical, to make a chime or chimb in.
• noun The edge or brim of a cask or tub, formed by the ends of the staves projecting beyond the head or bottom.
• noun In ship-building, that part of the waterway or thick plank at the side left above the deck and hollowed out to form a watercourse.
• To announce, indicate, summon, or bring about by chiming or stroke of bell: as, to chime (or strike) some particular hour; to chime one to sleep, or to supper, etc.
• noun A cymbal; probably also a bell.
• noun A set of bells (regularly five to twelve) tuned to a musical scale: called chimes, or a chime of bells.
• noun The harmonious sound of bells, or (rarely) of musical instruments.
• noun An arrangement of bells and strikers in an organ, musical box, clock, etc.
• noun Correspondence of sounds in general; rarely, proportion or harmonious relation: as, chimes of “verses,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun See chine, n., 3.
• noun The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
• noun 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.
• noun Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
• intransitive verb To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
• intransitive verb To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
• intransitive verb To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
• intransitive verb To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
• intransitive verb colloq. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
• intransitive verb To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun music A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
• noun An individual ringing component of such a set.
• noun A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
• noun The sound of such an instrument or device.
• noun A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
• verb intransitive To make the sound of a chime.
• verb transitive To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.