Healthy.
He was safe and sound.
Complete, solid, or secure.
Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
Having the property of soundness.
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
Soundly.
So ſound he ſlept, that nought mought him awake.
Yes; used to show agreement or understanding.
I found my jacket. — Sound.
A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound.
A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
Puget Sound; Owen Sound; Long Island Sound
To produce a sound.
When the horn sounds, take cover.
To convey an impression by one's sound.
He sounded good when we last spoke.
The strait that separates Zealand (an island ) from Scania (part ); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.
Synonym of Plymouth Sound, Devon, England.
From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundaz (“healthy”), m...
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A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
Most mild cases respond very nicely to such relatively simple office procedures as dilatations with sounds of increasing calibre, followed by the instillation of an ounce of 5 per cent argyrol in the bladder.
Of a whale, to dive downwards.
The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.