▪ I. eared, ppl. a.1
(ɪəd)
[f. ear n.1 + -ed.]
1. Furnished with ears (in various senses); in Bot. = auriculate. eared owl: a species of owl which has tufts on the head resembling ears.
| 1434 E.E. Wills (1882) 101 A litill panne of brasse y-ered. 1594 Blundevil Exerc. v. xii. (ed. 7) 556 He is eared and tailed like a Rat. 1677 Plot Nat. Hist. Oxfordsh. 103 This stone is..eared on both sides. 1854 Woodward Mollusca (1856) 256 Shell sub-orbicular..beaks approximate, eared. 1867 Athenæum No. 2094. 812/2 A white cap and eared head-dress. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 176 C, A group of Eared Seals. |
b. With defining word: Having (large, open, etc.) ears. Also lop-eared, prick-eared, etc. † four-eared: ? = four-armed (said of a market cross).
| 1514 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp. Canterb., Rec...for land at þe fower yeryd cros. 1724 Lond. Gaz. No. 6324/3 A Cart-like Gelding..a little Wide Ear'd. 1813 Southey Roderick vi, The whole people heard..open-ear'd, the sound. 1825 Mrs. Sherwood Old Times 11, Her hair..was combed neatly under a round-eared cap. |
† 2. (Cf. L. auriti canes in Apuleius.) Obs.
| 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 111 Dogs..are called..fierce, subtil, sounding, bold, eared for attention, affable, swift. |
▪ II. eared, ppl. a.2
(ɪəd)
Also 4 eeryd.
[f. ear n.2 and v.2 + -ed.]
Of corn or similar plants: Having ears; in Her. having ears of a certain tincture. Also, That has come into ear.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. vi. (1495) 393 Dewe gendrid in corrupt ayre..corrumpyth grene corn whan it is eeryd. 1563 T. Hill Garden. (1593) 105 The flour also is eared, much like to an ear of corne. 1589 R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1590) 21 A crop of toward youth, so well eared, that they put vs in hope of a timely haruest. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldrie iii. ix. 111 Three Wheate stalkes, bladed and Eared all proper. 1623 E. Wynne in Whitbourne Newfoundland 108 We have Wheate, Barly, Oates & Beanes both eared and codded. 1870 Ruskin in Daily Tel. 7 Oct., If one could only consider it as much a victory to get a barren field sown as to get an eared field stripped. |