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 nvied, and then have sent to the newspaper
anonymous libels upon them.
Macaulay. Echo
(Ech"o), v. i. To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.
"Echoing noise." Blackmore.
Echoer
(Ech"o*er) n. One who, or that which, echoes.
Echoless
(Ech"o*less), a. Without echo or response.
Echometer
(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.
Echometry
(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.
Echon
(Ech*on" Ech*oon") , pron. Each one. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Echoscope
(Ech"o*scope) n. [Gr. sound + -scope.] (Med.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced
by percussion of the thorax. Knight.
Éclair
(||É`clair")
n. [F.] (Cookery) A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.
Eclaircise
(E*clair"cise) v. t. [F. éclaircir; pref. es- (L. ex) + clair clear, L. clarus.] To make clear; to
clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.
Eclaircissement
(||E*clair"cisse*ment) n. [F., fr. éclaircir. See Eclaircise, v. t.] The clearing up of
anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation.
The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer.
Clarendon. Eclampsia
(||Ec*lamp"si*a) n. [NL., from Gr. a shining forth, fr. to shine forth; out + to shine.] (Med.) A
fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
The term is generally restricted to a convulsive affection attending pregnancy and parturition, and to
infantile convulsions.
Eclampsy
(||Ec*lamp"sy) n. (Med.) Same as Eclampsia.
