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Piercer
·noun A <<Piercel>>.
II. Piercer ·noun One who, or that which, pierces or perforates.
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piercer
Used by sail-makers to form eyelet-holes.
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Ear
·noun The organ of hearing; the external ear.
II. Ear ·noun ·same·as <<Crossette>>.
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Ear
Used frequently in a figurative sense (Ps. 34:15). To "uncover the ear" is to show respect to a pers...
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ear
A west-country term for a place where hatches prevent the influx of the tide.
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Bear's-ear
·noun A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
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Crop-ear
·noun A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
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Dog's-ear
·noun The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.
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Ear-bored
·adj Having the ear perforated.
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Ear-minded
·add. ·adj Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; s...
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Ear-shell
·noun A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis;
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Ear-splitting
·adj Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
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Hare's-ear
·noun An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium );
— so named from the shape of its leaves.
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Hart's-ear
·noun An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India.
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Jew's-ear
·noun A species of fungus (Hirneola Auricula-Judae, / Auricula), bearing some resemblance to the hum...
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Lion's ear
·- A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species ...
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Midas's ear
·- A pulmonate mollusk (Auricula, / Ellobium, aurismidae);
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Mouse-ear
·noun A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).
II. Mouse-ear ·noun The forget-me-not (...
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Sea-ear
·noun Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. ·see <<Abalone>>.
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Violet-ear
·add. ·noun Any tropical humming bird of the genus Petasophora, having violet or purplish ear tufts....
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White-ear
·noun The <<Wheatear>>.
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ear-shot
The distance or range of hearing.
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ear-wigging
Feeding an officer's ear with scandal against an absent individual.
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