The babbling echo mocks the hounds. --Shak.
The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. --Pope.
2. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
--Fuller.
Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his
heart. --R. L.
Stevenson.
3.
(a) (Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as
repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell. --Milton.
(b) (Gr. Myth.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth,
who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing
was left of her but her voice.
Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give
me answer from her mossy couch. --Milton.
{Echo organ} (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so
as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally
superseded by the swell.
{Echo stop} (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for
producing the 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.
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.