harken

verb

1. (US, alt-of, alternative, ambitransitive)Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.

   “Ev'n from the depths of Hell the Damn'd advance, / Th' Infernal Manſions nodding ſeem to dance; / The gaping three-mouth'd Dog forgets to ſnarl, / The Furies harken, and their Snakes uncurl.”

   “How, then, am I mad? Harken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.”

   “[T]he mother who had shaped him if any had toward the man he almost was, [...] whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved: [...]”

2. (US, figuratively, intransitive)To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).

   “Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.”

name

1. A surname from German.