Reverse Dictionary: HEAR

ADJECTIVES
► ACOUSTICON relating to the sense of hearing → c1660 obs.
► ALL EARS very eager to hear; acutely attentive → 1860s Amer. colloq.
► PANOMPHAEAN ► PANOMPHEAN hearing all → 1623 obs. (Bk.)
► THICK OF HEARING hard of hearing → 1692
► VEEVE ► VIEVE of sights, sounds, colours, memories, etc.: bright, clear, vivid, distinctly seen or heard, not blurred or faint → 1778 Sc.

NOUNS
► ACOUSTICON a device used to assist hearing or amplify sound → 1660
► AUDISCENCE hearing, attention → 1870 Sc.
► EARFUL something heard or overheard → colloq.
► HEARTH hearing; hearing distance → 1340 obs, exc. Eng. dial.
► SUBAUDITION a hearing a little → 1658 obs.
► TIN EAR unselective and unmusical hearing; auditory tastelessness → 1909 US sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► EAR-GUARD one who prevents a person from hearing → 1647 obs.

PHRASES
► HE HAS CLOTH EARS applied to one who, not wishing to hear, pretends that he doesn’t → 20C Cockneys’ usage
► NOT TO HEAR PEA-TURKEY not to hear a single word → 1984 Amer. dial.
► WITHIN A BEAGLE’S GOWL within hearing distance → 1924 Ireland

VERBS
► GET AN EARFUL to listen, to hear → 1917 sl.
► HAKY to hear, to give heed → 1888 Amer. dial.
► HARK to listen to; to hear with active attention → ME arch. & poetic usage
► HARKEN ► HEARKEN to hear with attention, to give ear to a thing; to listen to; to heed; to understand, to learn by hearing → c1000 poetic usage
► HARKY to hear, to give heed → 1888 Amer. dial.
► HEAR TELL to hear, to be informed, to learn by word of mouth → 1834 Eng. dial.
► OFHEAR to hear or ?to overhear → a1300 obs.
► UNDERSTAND to hear → 1884 Eng. dial.