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2. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.

Fuller.

Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.

R. L. Stevenson.

3. (a) (Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.

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.

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Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell.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.

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 &?;nvied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them.

Macaulay.

Ech"o, v. i. To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise." Blackmore.

Ech"o*er (?), n. One who, or that which, echoes.

Ech"o*less, a. Without echo or response.

E*chom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, sound + -meter: cf. F. échomètre.] (Mus) A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals. J. J. Rousseau.

E*chom"e*try (?), n. [Cf. F. échométrie.] 1. The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.

2. The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.