Also 4 eeryd. [f. EAR sb.2 and v.2 + -ED.] Of corn or similar plants: Having ears; in Her. having ears of a certain tincture. Also, That has come into ear.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XI. vi. (1495), 393. Dewe gendrid in corrupt ayre … corrumpyth grene corn whan it is eeryd.
1563. T. Hyll, Arte Garden. (1593), 105. The flour also is eared, much like to an ear of corne.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc. (1590), 21. A crop of toward youth, so well eared, that they put vs in hope alreadie of a timely haruest.
1610. Guillim, Heraldrie, III. ix. 111. Three Wheate stalkes, Bladed and Eared, all Proper.
1623. E. Wynne, in Whitbourne, Newfoundland, 108. We haue Wheate, Barly, Oates & Beanes both eared and codded.
1870. Ruskin, in Daily Tel., 7 Oct., 3/2. If one could only consider it as much a victory to get a barren field sown as to get an eared field stripped.
