[f. EAR v.2] The process of coming into ear. Also concr. (see quot. 1750).
a. 1547. T. Key, Erasm. Par. Mark (1548), iv. 17. It widdered awaye before it came to earing.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Tracts (1684), 41. Many Grains are commonly lost which come not to sprouting or earing.
1750. W. Ellis, Mod. Husbandm., III. i. 27 (E. D. S.). The shoot or earing of young wheat.
