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By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

pping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Shak.

A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.

That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics. Hutton.

oncomitant; existing or happening at the same time. There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. Tyndall.

g; to clang. The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes. W. Irving.

jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds. For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. Longfellow.

The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.

ed of harshness. Shak. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Pope.

igurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.

infused; suggestion; inspiration. His folly and his wisdom are of his oun growth, not the echo or infusion of other men. Swift.

reiteration. De Quincey. That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. Featley. Happiness with an echo or ingemination. Holdsworth.

Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo. Bacon.

t-green leaves; a species of Senecio (S. scandens). -- Ground ivy. (Bot.) Gill (Nepeta Glechoma). -- Ivy bush. (Bot.) See Mountain laurel, under Mountain. -- Ivy owl (Zoöl.), the barn owl. -- Ivy tod (Bot.), the ivy plant. Tennyson. -- Japanese ivy (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ampelopsis tricuspidata), closely relate…

He . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, That at the parting all the church echoed. Shak.

To bewail audibly; to lament. Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan My dear Columbo, dead and gone. Prior.

To resound; to echo. And the whole air pealed With the cheers of our men. Longfellow.

Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.

lants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc.