Echo

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

II. Echo ·vt To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to Reverberate.

III. Echo ·noun A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.

IV. Echo ·vt To repeat with assent; to Respond; to Adopt.

V. Echo ·vi To give an echo; to Resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.

VI. Echo ·add. ·noun A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.

VII. Echo ·noun A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.

VIII. Echo ·noun A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

IX. Echo ·add. ·noun 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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