give ear

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,archaic,intransitive)Tolisten: to devote one's attention to an auditory event.Synonym:lend an earc.1597(date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward]Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i]:Give earto his motions: Master Slender, I will description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.1882,Dante Gabriel Rosetti,A Death-Parting, lines5–6:Leaves and rain and the days of the year,(Water-willow and wellaway,)All these fall, and my soulgives ear

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