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imp. & p. p. of Hear.

Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.

See Shard. [Obs.]

Not heard; not perceived by the ear; as, words unheard by those present.

New; unprecedented; unparalleled. Swift.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

g Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.

(Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.) Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [Obs. or Low. Eng.] "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.…

Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton.

To ply; to move. [R.] I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water. T. Moore.

So as to be heard by others; privately. Then lords and ladies spake aside. Sir W. Scott. To set aside (Law), to annul or defeat the effect or operation of, by a subsequent decision of the same or of a superior tribunal; to declare of no authority; as, to set aside a verdict or a judgment.

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.

So as to be heard.

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

A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society. [Jocose] In our youth we have heard him spoken of by the bigwigs with extreme condescension. Dickens.

The bell, or boom, of the bittern The bittern's hollow bill was heard. Wordsworth.

Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.

he noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.