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▪ I. chiming, vbl. n.|ˈtʃaɪmɪŋ|
[f. chime v.1]
The action of the vb. chime in various senses.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Carillon, a chimyng of bels, courfew. 1646Shirley Friendship Wks. VI. 453 The chiming of the Spheres. 1667Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesie Wks. 1725 I. 74 The Rhyme is disposed carelessly, and far from often chyming. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. i. i. xxxii. 266 [Piers Plowman] is writ in metre, but much different from the manner of our modern verse, there being no rhithms or chiming of words. 1864Ecclesiologist in Ellacombe Bells of Ch. iv. (1872) 265 In both chiming and ringing the motion of the bell is oscillatory.
b. Comb., as chiming-barrel (see quot.).
1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 51 [The] Chiming Barrel..[is] a brass or wooden cylinder studded with pins for lifting the hammers in a chiming train.
▪ II. chiming, ppl. a.|ˈtʃaɪmɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That chimes, in various senses of the vb.; spec. in chiming clock.
1648Herrick Hesper., To Musick (1869) 109 Fall down..from those thy chiming spheres To charme our soules. 1656More Antid. Ath. Pref. Gen. (1712) 13 This Assertion..is a mere chiming contradiction. 1726Gay Fables i. xl. 13 The poet's chiming close. 1789Loiterer 18 July No. 25 p. 14 The chiming Clock, or the repeating Watch. a1870Monsell Ch. Bells in Ellacombe Bells of Ch. i. (1872) 20 Chiming Bells, with changeful sound, Scatter music all around. 1962E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 39 Chiming Clock..Tower clocks and some antique clocks chime on bells. Modern domestic clocks usually have the Westminster or modified Whittington chime on rod gongs.
Hence † ˈchimingness, chiming quality.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. To Rdr., Those bewitcheries of speech that flow from Gloss and Chimingness. |