| Echo (echo) |
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| n. | ( k"***osl]) |
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| Ech"o |
; pl.
Echoes (k" z). [L. echo, Gr.
'hchw` echo, sound, akin to 'hchh`,
'h^chos, sound, noise; cf. Skr. v ç to
sound, bellow; per |
A sound reflected from
an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener;
repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response;
answer.
A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the
reverberation of them.
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To send back (a sound);
to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
To repeat with assent; to respond; to
adopt.
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To give an echo; to
resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with
acclamations.
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| Echo (echo) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Ech"o |
| ; pl.
Echoes (#). [L. echo, Gr. (?) echo.]
(Whist) (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.
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