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Alderman. [Obs.]

The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).

Earnest money. Same as Arles penny. [Obs.]

Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear. Pope.

An earring. [Obs.] The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24 (Douay version).

The state of being early or forward; promptness.

A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.

Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.

A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

whether the reward is received or not). The high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn. Milton.

xed determination; eagerness; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.

Serious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In an earnest manner.

The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.

Full of anxiety or yearning. [Obs.] P. Fletcher.

That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural. As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings. Burke.

An instrument for removing wax from the ear.

Earshot. Marston.

An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.

See Arrish.