Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - chime

 I. noun  Etymology: Middle English chimbe, from Old English cimb-; akin to Middle Dutch kimme edge of a cask  Date: 14th century the edge or rim of a cask or drum  II. verb  (~d; chiming)  Date: 14th century  intransitive verb  1.  a. to make a musical and especially a harmonious sound  b. to make the sounds of a ~  2. to be or act in accord the music and the mood ~d well together  transitive verb  1. to cause to sound musically by striking  2. to produce by chiming  3. to call or indicate by chiming the clock ~d midnight  4. to utter repetitively ; din 2  • ~r noun  III. noun  Etymology: Middle English, cymbal, probably from Anglo-French *chimbe, cime, from Latin cymbalum cymbal  Date: 15th century  1. an apparatus for chiming a bell or set of bells  2.  a. a musically tuned set of bells  b. one of a set of objects giving a bell-like sound when struck  3.  a. the sound of a set of bells — usually used in plural  b. a musical sound suggesting that of bells  4. accord, harmony such happy ~ of fact and theory — Henry Maudsley