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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



... the wicked woman gave him a box on each ear, and made him climb to his wretched room in the loft. There the heartbroken little one lay down in the darkness, and, drenching his pillow with ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott

... and they were; but the devil has won the title of "Prince of the power of the air"! His airplane is instantaneous and noiseless; he requires no special landing field, but can light on the lobe of your ear with a precision that is uncanny, and, lighting there, he whispers things into your heart that you would not dare to utter with your lips. There are three points scored on the Wrights in one breath, and ...
— "Say Fellows--" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues • Wade C. Smith

... awaken. He was a big man who worked hard and who slept heavily. Rousing from sleep was a task accomplished by degrees and it took some time. He had heard John with one ear and now he heard with the other. His right eye opened slowly and then the left. The blood became more active in his brain and in a minute or two he was ...
— The Hosts of the Air • Joseph A. Altsheler

... burnt like a son of Sahara. His clothing, like his face, was dust-coloured. He wore knee-breeches of homespun, brown stockings, a handkerchief that had once been coloured bound round his head, with the knot over his left ear. He was startlingly rough and wild in appearance, but his features, on examination, were refined, and ...
— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman

... Cavendish, and hardened, the grizzly moustache seeming to stiffen. His mouth was close to the ear of his companion, and he spoke without ...
— The Strange Case of Cavendish • Randall Parrish


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