Ear-splitting

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• Splitting

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Split>>. ...

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• Ear

  ·noun The organ of hearing; the external ear. II. Ear ·noun ·same·as <<Crossette>>. III. Ear ·noun...

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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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• Phase splitting

  ·add. ·- The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches o...

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• shingle-splitting

  vb. n. obsolete Tasmanianslang. 1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 89: «When a man gets behindhand ...

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• splitting out

  To remove the blocks on which a vessel rests in a dock, or at launching, when the pressure is too gr...

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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-piercer

  ·noun The <<Earwig>>. ...

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• Ear-shell

  ·noun A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis; — called also sea-ear. ·see <<Abalon...

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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); — so called from resemblance to a human ...

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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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• splitting the books

  The making of a new complete-book after payment, in which the dead, run, or discharged men are omitt...

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