eared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪəd/
ipa: /ɪ(ə)ɹd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From ear + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He was a large-eared man.
text: What doſt thou puſh, thou prickeard cur of Iſeland?
ref: 1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B, verso:
text: Tho' he despond that sows his grain, / To bind his full-ear'd sheaves, and bring / from long captivity,
ref: 1796, Nicholas Brady, Nahum Tate, A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Church, London: H.D. Symonds, Psalm, 126 verse 6, p. 81:
text: 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!
text: 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; […]
ref: 1879, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 41:
text: He might have flinched altogether from speaking if at this moment he had not seen Ampleforth, the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray, looking for a place to sit down.
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 103:
text: 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Perennial Classics, 2002, Part Two, Chapter 28, p. 305,
Some of his rural clients would park their long-eared steeds under the chinaberry trees in the back yard, and Atticus would keep appointments on the back steps.
glosses: Having ears (of a specified type).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: Having ears.
Derived terms: bare-eared squirrel monkey
bat-eared fox
big-eared
blue-eared kingfisher
chestnut-eared bunting
closed-eared
close-eared
cloth-eared
dog-eared
dog eared
dogeared
dog's-eared
eared leafhopper
earedness
eared owl
eared seal
flap-eared
flop-eared
greater mouse-eared bat
hairy-eared dwarf lemur
hook-eared
hookeared
hook-eared sculpin
jug-eared
long-eared
long-eared bat
long-eared fox
long-eared guinea pig
long-eared owl
lop-eared
mouse-eared bat
open-eared
pink-eared duck
prick-eared
rabbit-eared
rabbit-eared bandicoot
red-eared slider
red-eared terrapin
red-eared turtle
round-eared tube-nosed bat
short-eared dog
short-eared fox
short-eared owl
short-eared zorro
small-eared dog
small-eared galago
tassel-eared squirrel
tin-eared
tulip-eared
uneared
western black-eared wheatear
white-eared parakeet