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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHIME . (r) (Probably derived from a mistaken separation into two words, chimbe See also:

bell, of chymbal or chymbel, the old See also:form of " cymbal," See also:Lat. cymbalum), a See also:mechanical arrangement by which a set of bells in a See also:church or other See also:tower, or in a See also:clock, are struck so as to produce a sequence of musical sounds or a tune. For the mechanism of such an arrangement in a clock and in a set of bells, see the articles CLOCK and BELL. The word is also applied to the tune thus played by the bells and also to the harmonious " fall " of See also:verse, and so, figuratively, to any harmonious agreement of thought or See also:action. (2) (From See also:Mid. Eng. chimb, a word meaning " edge," See also:common in varied forms to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Ger. Kimme), the bevelled rim formed by the projecting staves at the ends of a cask.

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