a. [ L. reverberatus, p. p. of reverberare to strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare to lash, whip, beat, fr. verber a lash, whip, rod. ] 1. Reverberant. [ Obs. ] “The reverberate hills.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Driven back, as sound; reflected. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reverberated p. pr. & vb. n. Reverberating. ] 1. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who, like an arch, reverberates
The voice again. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [ Obs. ] “Reverberated into glass.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To resound; to echo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ CF. F. réverbération. ] The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective. [ 1913 Webster ]

This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the mass upon its centers. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, produces reverberation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reverberatory furnace. See the Note under Furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A reverberatory furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]