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Ear   /ɪr/   Listen
Ear

noun
1.
The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
2.
Good hearing.  "A good ear for pitch"
3.
The externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear.  Synonyms: auricle, pinna.
4.
Attention to what is said.
5.
Fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn.  Synonyms: capitulum, spike.



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"Ear" Quotes from Famous Books



... she had heard constantly the voice of the evil spirits of the falls, and the spirits themselves had come to her in a dream, and whispering in her ear had urged her on to vengeance, and promised her immunity from their wrath. Manikawan, like all her people, was superstitious in the extreme. She believed absolutely in the supernatural, and her faith in dreams ...
— The Gaunt Gray Wolf - A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob • Dillon Wallace

... March with variant winds was past, And April had with her silver showers Ta'en leif at life with an orient blast; And lusty May, that mother of flowers, Had made the birds to begin their hours, Among the odours ruddy and white, Whose harmony was the ear's delight: ...
— An Englishwoman's Love-Letters • Anonymous

... quite ten o'clock, and the lights in the Bassett house on the bluff above had been extinguished. It was at once clear to Dan that he must act promptly. Allen, dismayed by the complications that beset his love-affair, had proposed an elopement, and Marian had lent a willing ear. ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson

... one mouthful; and I myself saw another of nearly the same size do the same thing under the ship's stern. Our people killed and sent off several of the goats, which we thought as good as the best venison in England; and I observed, that one of them appeared to have been caught and marked, its right ear being slit in a manner that could not have happened by accident.[35] We had also fish in such plenty, that one boat would, with hooks and lines, catch, in a few hours, as much as would serve a large ship's company two days: They were of ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr

... shall reach thine ear, Armor's clang, or war steed champing, Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan or squadron tramping. Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. Ruder sounds ...
— Eighth Reader • James Baldwin


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