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noun

Earmark n.

A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark. "Money is said to have no earmark." "Flying, he (a slave) should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark." "A set of intellectual ideas... have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor."

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Etymology of 'Earmark'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Earmark" Quotes from Famous Books

... before it was wrapped in that undershirt," he said to himself, testing the blood on the blade with a speculative fingernail. "There ain't a mark on the undershirt. Gawd! Here it is again—the earmark of a crime, and no crime—yet. This ...

— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White

... the other hand, held their courts regularly. And the fact that they did so is of great historical significance, for the right of court-holding rather than the obligation of military service is the earmark which distinguishes feudalism from all other systems of land tenure. Practically every Canadian seigneur had the judicial prerogative; he could establish a court in his seigneury, appoint its judge ...

— The Seigneurs of Old Canada: - A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism • William Bennett Munro

... marked his progress with amusement not unmixed with amazement. It came to him that there was a greater difference, a deeper divergence between himself and Peter than between Peter and these Britishers. The earmark of your coast-born South Carolinian is the selfsame, absolute sureness of himself, his place, his people, in the essential scheme of things. Wasn't he born in South Carolina? Hasn't he relatives ...

— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler

... and advise him to learn to take care of horses, or make boots, or lay bricks. But again he saw his old friend in the lad's face, and again he looked in vain for any sign of negro blood. The least earmark would have turned the scale, but he ...

— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt

Words linked to "Earmark" : portion, reserve, mark, assign, allot, appropriate, mould, stylemark, trademark, marking, set aside, mold