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9,281 words match “EAR”

LINEARLY adv.
In a linear manner; with lines.
LINEARY a.
Linear. Holland.
LION'S EAR n.
A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.
LION-HEART n.
A very brave person.
LION-HEARTED a.
Very brave; brave and magnanimous. Sir W. Scott.
LOPEARED a.
Having ears which lop or hang down.
MAINSWEAR v.
To swear falsely. [Obs.] Blount.
MANSWEAR v.
To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear.
MEAR n.
A boundary. See Mere. [Obs.]
MIDAS'S EAR n.
nate mollusk (Auricula, or Ellobium, aurismidæ); -- so called from resemblance to a human ear.
MIDDLE-EARTH n.
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. [Obs.] Shak.
MISBEAR v.
To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MISHEAR v.
To hear incorrectly.
MISLEARN v.
To learn wrongly.
MISREHEARSE v.
To rehearse or quote incorrectly. Sir T. More.
MISSWEAR v.
To swear falsely.
MISWEAR v.
To wear ill. [Obs.] Bacon.
MIXTILINEAL; MIXTILINEAR a.
consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve. [R.]
MOHAMMEDAN YEAR n.
The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32½ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a.d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 begin Nov. 30, 1913, acording to the Gregorian calendar.…
MOTHER-OF-PEARL n.
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
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