Defn: A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of
Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her
mossy couch. Milton.
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produce a soft, distant effect; — generally superseded by the swell.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.
I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.
Shak.
ECHO Ech"o, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Echoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Echoing. — 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes (.]
1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate. Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. Dryden. The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever. Keble.
2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they Macaulay.
ECHO
Ech"o, v. i.
Defn: To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise." Blackmore.
ECHOER
Ech"o*er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, echoes.
ECHOLESS
Ech"o*less, a.
Defn: Without echo or response.