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Definitions for Earing

[1] a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
[2] the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
[3] to form or put forth ears.
[4] to plow; cultivate.
[5] nautical a line fastened to a corner of a sail for reefing
[6] the organ of hearing and balance in higher vertebrates and of balance only in fishes. In man and other mammals it consists of three parts See external ear, middle ear, internal ear Related adjectives: aural, otic
[7] the outermost cartilaginous part of the ear (pinna) in mammals, esp man
[8] the sense of hearing
[9] sensitivity to musical sounds, poetic diction, etc he has an ear for music
[10] attention, esp favourable attention; consideration; heed (esp in the phrases give ear to, lend an ear )
[11] an object resembling the external ear in shape or position, such as a handle on a jug
[12] Also called (esp Brit): earpiece a display box at the head of a newspaper page, esp the front page, for advertisements, etc
[13] all ears very attentive; listening carefully
[14] by ear without reading from written music
[15] chew someone's ear slang to reprimand severely
[16] fall on deaf ears to be ignored or pass unnoticed
[17] have hard ears Caribbean to be stubbornly disobedient
[18] a flea in one's ear informal a sharp rebuke
[19] have the ear of to be in a position to influence he has the ear of the president
[20] in one ear and out the other heard but unheeded
[21] keep one's ear to the ground or have one's ear to the ground to be or try to be well informed about current trends and opinions
[22] make a pig's ear of informal to ruin disastrously
[23] one's ears are burning one is aware of being the topic of another's conversation
[24] out on one's ear informal dismissed unceremoniously
[25] play by ear to act according to the demands of a situation rather than to a plan; improvise to perform a musical piece on an instrument without written music
[26] prick up one's ears to start to listen attentively; become interested
[27] set by the ears to cause disagreement or commotion
[28] a thick ear informal a blow on the ear delivered as punishment, in anger, etc
[29] turn a deaf ear to be deliberately unresponsive
[30] up to one's ears informal deeply involved, as in work or debt
[31] wet behind the ears informal inexperienced; naive; immature
[32] the part of a cereal plant, such as wheat or barley, that contains the seeds, grains, or kernels
[33] (intr) (of cereal plants) to develop such parts

Words nearby Earing

eared seal, earflap, earful, earhart, earhart, amelia, earing, earl, earl grey, earl marshal, earl palatine, earlap

Origin of Earing

3before 900; Middle English ere(n ), Old English erian; cognate with Old Norse erja, Gothic arjan, Latin arāre

Word origin for Earing

Old English ēar; related to Old High German ahar, Old Norse ax, Gothic ahs ear, Latin acus chaff, Greek akros pointed