eared — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having ears (of a specified type).

   Usage

   • In compounds
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   He was a large-eared man.

   What doſt thou puſh, thou prickeard cur of Iſeland?

   More examples (5)

   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, 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; […]

   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.

   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.

2. Having ears.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

Adjective

1. worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down

   Synonyms

   dog-eared

   Examples

   an old book with dog-eared pages

2. having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination

   Antonyms

   earless