See Also: sounder(medicine)
sounder(1)(dictionary)
sounder(2)(dictionary)
sounder(dictionary)
Depth Sounder - Sailing(gambling)
Echo Sounder - Sailing(gambling)

figured (iou) and sounder(2) (iou)


figured (iou)



figured adjective. LME.
[from FIGURE verb, noun: see -ED1, -ED2.]
Having a particular figure or shape. LME.
T. Dwight Its summits are finely figured, and richly diversified.
b. Having a definite shape, structured. E17-L18.
Shaped into or represented by a figure or figures; Math. = FIGURATE adjective 3. L15.
Adorned with patterns or designs. L15.
T. Sheridan A pretty figured linen gown.
Adorned with rhetorical figures; figurative. E16.
Of a Dance: consisting of figures. E18.
Heraldry. Of the sun, moon, or Other charge: drawn with a human face. M19.
Music. = FIGURAL 4. L19.
Special collocations: figured bass: see BASS noun2.

sounder(2) (iou)



sounder noun2. LME.
[from SOUND verb1 + -ER1.]
A person who makes or utters a sound or sounds; a person who plays a musical instrument. arch. LME.
A telegraphic device which enables Communications to be received audibly; a telegraphist who operates such a device. M19.
A device or instrument which gives an audible signal or alarm; a signal so given. L19.