1. Furnished with ears (in various senses); in Bot. = AURICULATE. Eared owl: a species of owl that has tufts on the head resembling ears.
1434. E. E. Wills (1882), 101. A litill panne of brasse y-ered.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., V. xii. (ed. 7), 556. He is eared and tailed like a Rat.
1677. Plot, Nat. Hist. Oxfordsh., 103. This stone is … eared on both sides.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 256. Shell sub-orbicular … beaks approximate, eared.
1867. Athenæum, No. 2094. 812/2. A white cap and eared head-dress.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 176. C, A group of Eared Seals.
b. With defining word: Having (large, open, etc.) ears. Also LOP-EARED, PRICK-EARED, etc. † Four-eared: ? = four-armed (said of a market cross).
1514. MS. Acc. St. John’s Hosp. Canterb., Rec. … for land at þe fower yeryd cros.
1724. Lond. Gaz., No. 6324/3. A Cart-like Gelding … a little Wide Ear’d.
1813. Southey, Roderick, VI. The whole people heard … open-ear’d, the sound.
1825. Mrs. Sherwood, Old Times, II. Her hair … was combed neatly under a round-eared cap.
† 2. (Cf. L. auriti canes in Apuleius.) Obs.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 141. Dogges … are called … fierce, subtill, sounding, bold, eared for attention, affable, swift.
