(music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.

An individual ringing component of such a set.

A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.

The sound of such an instrument or device.

A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.

Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)

(intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.

(transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

(transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

(intransitive) To agree; to correspond.

To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.