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A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church. [Obs.] Shelton.

An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

ch, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

An audience; a hearing. [Obs.] He appeals to a high audit. Milton.

The act of hearing or listening; hearing. Audition may be active or passive; hence the difference between listening and simple hearing. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. [R.] Cotgrave.

A hearer or listener. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.

A female hearer. Milton.

Full of augury; foreboding. [Obs.] "Augurous hearts." Chapman.

The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.

The act of listening or hearkening to. Hickes.

an the danger be averted "To avert his ire." Milton. When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon. Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior.

The utterance of the ejaculation "Ay me !" [Obs.] See Ay, interj. "Aymees and hearty heigh-hoes." J. Fletcher.

A large stick of wood, forming the of a fire on the hearth. [U.S.] There was first a backlog, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes. S. G. Goodrich.

To keep steady; to steady, morally. 'T is charity must ballast the heart. Hammond.

The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc. Burrill.

retics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

Vile; mean. "Thy baseborn heart." Shak.