eared

Having ears (of a specified type).

Adjective

  1. Having ears (of a specified type).
    • He was a large-eared man.
    • What doſt thou puſh, thou prickeard cur of Iſeland? - 1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn...
    • Tho' he despond that sows his grain, / To bind his full-ear'd sheaves, and bring / from long captivity, - 1796, Nicholas Brady, Nahum Tate, A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Church,...
  2. Having ears.
    • 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...

Origin

Etymology tree English ear English -ed English eared From ear + -ed.

Derived

bare-eared squirrel monkey bat-eared fox big-eared blue-eared kingfisher chestnut-eared bunting closed-eared close-eared cloth-eared dogeared dog-eared dog eared dog's-eared drop-eared Dumbo-eared eared leafhopper earedness eared owl eared seal flap-eared flop-eared greater mouse-eared bat hairy-eared dwarf lemur hook-eared hookeared

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of ear