Part 3591

<hw>Ech"o</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Echoed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Echoing</er>. -- <tt>3d pers. sing. pres.</tt> <er>Echoes</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.</def>

<blockquote>Those peals are <b>echoed</b> by the Trojan throng. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The wondrous sound Is <b>echoed</b> on forever. <i>Keble.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.</def>

<blockquote>They would have <b>echoed</b> the praises of the men whom they <?/nvied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Echo</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>Ech"o</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; <as>as, the hall <ex>echoed</ex> with acclamations</as>.</def> "<i>Echoing</i> noise."

<i>Blackmore.</i>

<h1>Echoer</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>Ech"o*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, echoes.</def>

<h1>Echoless</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>Ech"o*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without echo or response.</def>

<h1>Echometer</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E*chom"e*ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, <?/, sound + <ets>-meter</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82chom\'8atre</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus)</fld> <def>A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals.</def>

<i>J. J. Rousseau.</i>

<h1>Echometry</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E*chom"e*try</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82chom\'82trie</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.</def>

<h1>Echon, Echoon</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw><hw>Ech*on"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ech*oon"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>pron.</tt> <def>Each one.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Echoscope</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>Ech"o*scope</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, <?/, sound + <ets>-scope</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1></clair</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw><?/`clair"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <fld>(Cookery)</fld> <def>A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.</def>