Sound, v. i.
 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.”
    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 To sound 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.