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Noun. Tunes or music. E.g."Have you brought any new sounds for tonight's party."
Hound is British slang for a reprehensible person. Hound is British slang for a young male thug.Hound is American and Canadian slang for an enthusiast.
Pound is Australian slang for a solitary−confinement cell or wing in a prison.
The weights that you put on an Olympic dumbell, specifically a 45 pound weight. Smaller weights are called quarters (25 pounds), dimes (10 pounds), and nickels (5 pounds).
Hare and Hound is London Cockney rhyming slang for a round of drinks (round).
Ten pound note. Ten pounds.
Sounds was mid−th century slang for tunes or music.
very good, can also be longer "Sound as a pound up a tree top tall etc" still used today in parts of the midlands
Hounds on an island is American slang for sausages on beans.
Fox and hound is London Cockney rhyming slang for a round of drinks.
Safe and sound is London Cockney rhyming slang for ground.
Lost and found is London Cockney rhyming slang for one pound sterling.
ten pounds (thanks N Shipperley). The ten pound meaning of cock and hen is 20th century rhyming slang. Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. Its transfer to ten pounds logically grew more popular through the inflationary 1900s as the ten pound amount and banknote became more common currency in people's wages and wallets, and therefore language. Cock and hen also gave raise to the variations cockeren, cockeren and hen, hen, and the natural rhyming slang short version, cock - all meaning ten pounds.
Pounds and pence is London Cockney rhyming slang for sense.
Soundo is slang for sound asleep.
to pound or to pound down refers to drinking really fast and usually refers to beer or other alchoholic beverages.
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n.
The keeper of a pound.
v. t.
To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
n.
One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
interj.
An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression of anger or wonder.
v. t.
To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds.
interj.
An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath.
pl.
of Pound
v. t.
To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.
a.
Round.
n.
A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.
v. t.
To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
v. t.
To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
pl.
of Pound
a.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath.
imp. & p. p.
of Pounce
n.
A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.
imp. & p. p.
of Pound
v. t.
To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.
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of Pound
v. i.
To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
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