eared
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/ɪəd/
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/ɪəd/ · /ɪ(ə)ɹd/
Definition of eared
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(in-compounds, not-comparable)Having ears (of a specified type).
“He was a large-eared man.”
“What doſt thou puſh, thou prickeard cur of Iſeland?”
“Tho' he despond that sows his grain, / To bind his full-ear'd sheaves, and bring / from long captivity,”
“1835, William Wordsworth, "On a High Part of the Coast of Cumberland," line 19-20, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited by William Knight, Volume VII, London: Macmillan & Co., 1896, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47143/47143-h/47143-h.htm Teach me with quick-eared spirit to rejoice / In admonitions of thy softest voice!”
“Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did / Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; […]”
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adj
-
(in-compounds, not-comparable)Having ears (of a specified type).
“He was a large-eared man.”
“What doſt thou puſh, thou prickeard cur of Iſeland?”
“Tho' he despond that sows his grain, / To bind his full-ear'd sheaves, and bring / from long captivity,”
“1835, William Wordsworth, "On a High Part of the Coast of Cumberland," line 19-20, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited by William Knight, Volume VII, London: Macmillan & Co., 1896, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47143/47143-h/47143-h.htm Teach me with quick-eared spirit to rejoice / In admonitions of thy softest voice!”
“Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did / Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; […]”
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(not-comparable)Having ears.
“But for his other guests he let bear in the massy cups of silver, and the great eared wine jars holding two firkins apiece, and he let pour forth to the Witches and the Foliots, and they drank the cup of memory unto King Gorice XI., slain that day by the hand of Goldry Bluszco.”
verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of ear
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Etymology
From ear + -ed.
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