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adjective

Eared adj.

Having (such or so many) ears; used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared.

(Zoöl.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.

Eared owl (Zoöl.), an owl having earlike tufts of feathers, as the long-eared owl, and short-eared owl.

Eared seal (Zoöl.), any seal of the family Otariidae, including the fur seals and hair seals. See Seal.

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Etymology of 'Eared'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eared" Quotes from Famous Books

... the study that Chopin played for Henrietta Voigt at Leipsic, September 12, 1836. In her diary she wrote: "The over excitement of his fantastic manner is imparted to the keen eared. It made me hold my breath. Wonderful is the ease with which his velvet fingers glide, I might almost say fly, over the keys. He has enraptured me—in a way which hitherto had been unknown to me. What delighted me was ...

— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker

... a few minutes Hazel fared forth, wrapped in Bill's fur coat, a flap-eared cap on her head, and on her feet several pairs of stockings inside moccasins that Bill had procured from some mysterious source a day ...

— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... outlying part of the house, reappearing in a few minutes with a dog-eared bundle of sheets in her hand. From among these she selected three and set them ...

— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... comedy event—a mule race, free for all, in which one of the hunting men, in uniform, made such a handsome showing against a rabble of white and colored boys, all of them yelling, all of them beating their long-eared animals with sticks, that he would have won, had he not deliberately pulled his ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... prowlers, who intercepting our associates in the carriage-way, encircled them in such a manner, as to preclude the possibility of extrication; and raised, at the same time, a discoid of sounds, compared with which the vocal minstrelsy of the long-eared braying fraternity would have been the ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

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