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ated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. The babbling echo mocks the hounds. Shak. The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. Pope.

One who, or that which, echoes.

Without echo or response.

A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals. J. J. Rousseau.

The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.

Each one. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Knight.

A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers.

A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.

Chosen beforehand.

Same as Malicho.

ery feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained.

A trifle; a kickshaw. Donne.

To choose again.

To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. And a loud groan reëchoes from the main. Pope.

To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reëcho the roar of cannon.

An odometer for vehicles. Knight.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo).