ECHO
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Ech"o (ĕk"&ouptack_;), n.; pl. Echoes (ĕk"&ō;z). [L. echo, Gr. 'hchw` echo, sound, akin to 'hchh`, 'h^chos, sound, noise; cf. Skr. v&ā;ç to sound, bellow; perh. akin to E. voice: cf. F. écho.] 1. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
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The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
Shak.
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The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.
Pope.
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2. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
Fuller.
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Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
R. L. Stevenson.
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3. (a) (Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
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Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell.
Milton.
(b) (Gr. Myth.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
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Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo
To give me answer from her mossy couch.
Milton.
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4. (Whist, Contract Bridge) (a) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or as played by some exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signaled for trumps. (b) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
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Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell. -- Echo stop (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for producing the soft effect of distant sound. -- To applaud to the echo, to give loud and continuous applause. M. Arnold.
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I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.
Shak.
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Ech"o, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Echoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Echoing. -- 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes (&unr_;).] 1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
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Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
Dryden.
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The wondrous sound
Is echoed on forever.
Keble.
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2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
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They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them.
Macaulay.
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Ech"o, v. i. To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. “Echoing noise.” Blackmore.
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