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One who hears; an auditor.

One who shears. Like a lamb dumb before his shearer. Acts viii. 32.

One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.

A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate. Walker.

Attentive, as a person listening. [Obs.] God speaks not the idle and unconcerned hearer, but to the vigilant and arrect. Smalridge.

An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. Fit audience find, though few. Milton. He drew his audience upward to the sky. Dryden. Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop…

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

A hearer or listener. Macaulay.

An assembly of hearers; an audience.

A female hearer. Milton.

oth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie.

A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer. Fuller.

To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as, to hear a concert; to hear Mass.

An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak.

port. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay.

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor. Shak.

Atterbury. A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live. Swift.