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

tale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon.…

or tube. The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak.

One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney. Halliwell.

To burn. [Obs.] Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. W. Browne.

night there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

See Bottomery. [Obs.] There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond. R. North.

Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.

A cutting; a shearing.

The hearing a matter judicially.

A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. [R.] Boucher

An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory. Bacon.

met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum. Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise. C. Bront

A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope.

t pierces or wounds like a dart. The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. Hannan More.

Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man. Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf. Shak.

A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it. [See Illust. of Dactylology.] Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.

To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly. Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries. Addison.