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  1.  Having long ears; used spec. in the names of some animals.

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1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Orejudo, long eared.

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1646.  G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, I. 60. With long-eard Caps, and Bells to make a noise.

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1752.  Sir J. Hill, Hist. Animals, 582. The long-eared, Syrian Goat.

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1807.  Home, in Phil. Trans., XCVII. 176. The stomach of the long-eared bat.

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1831.  A. Wilson & Bonaparte, Amer. Ornith., I. 104. The long-eared owl is fourteen inches and a half long.

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187[?].  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., II. 96. The Long-eared Fox (Megalotis).

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  2.  In allusion to the ass’s ears: Asinine.

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1605.  Camden, Rem. (1637), 340. They are counted long eared which delight in them.

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1789.  Wolcot (P. Pindar), Subj. for Paint., iii. And like some long-ear’d creatures, bray ‘what art?’

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1850.  Carlyle, Latter-d. Pamph., i. 12. You are fallen in an evil, heavy-laden, long-eared age.

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1900.  Scotsman, 3 Oct., 4/2. The feeling of weariness with the war … is getting the better of the long-eared multitude.

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