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Earmark v. t. (past & past part. earmarked; pres. part. earmarking)

To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

To designate or reserve for a specific purpose; as, the alumni fund was earmarked for dormitory construction.

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Etymology of 'Earmark'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Earmark" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tates are, as everyone who lives in Toledo knows, the most formidable people in town. Mrs. Howard Tate was a Chicago Todd before she became a Toledo Tate, and the family generally affect that conscious simplicity which has begun to be the earmark of American aristocracy. The Tates have reached the stage where they talk about pigs and farms and look at you icy-eyed if you are not amused. They have begun to prefer retainers rather than friends as dinner guests, spend a lot of money in a quiet way and, having lost all ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... rather than to provide a comprehensive rule, and to ensure the maintenance of a community of feeling and interests among the samurai through habit, intercourse, and a living contemporary literature. These minor obligations do not earmark more than an hour in the day. Yet they serve to break down isolations of sympathy, all sorts of physical and intellectual sluggishness and the development of unsocial preoccupations ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... Cicero the earmark of this style. The Ciris has it less often than Catullus. Being somewhat unjustly criticized as an artifice it was usually avoided in the Aeneid. There are more harsh elisions in the Ciris than ...

— Vergil - A Biography • Tenney Frank

Words linked to "Earmark" : hallmark, marker, characteristic, allot, mold, marking, trademark, reserve, portion, assign, mark, appropriate, allow