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Instruments that made melodius chime.

Milton.

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.

We have heard the chimes at midnight.

Shak.

3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion,
relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse."
Cowley.

Chime, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Chimed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Chiming.] [See Chime, n.]
1. To sound in harmonious accord, as
bells.

2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit;
to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.

Everything chimed in with such a humor.

W. irving.

3. To join in a conversation; to express
assent; -- followed by in or in with.
[Colloq.


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