the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Echo
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(n.) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
(3):
(v. i.) To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.
(4):
(n.) Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
(5):
(n.) A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
(6):
(n.) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
(7):
(n.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
(8):
(v. t.) To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
(9):
(v. t.) To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Echo'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/echo.html. 1828.
