Noun

(uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}

(countable) The act by which something is heard.

* 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)

To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings , smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires

(uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.

(countable, legal) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.

* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian

, title= Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , passage=Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?}}

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; also called head earing.

(nautical) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; also called reef earing.

(nautical) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.

(archaic) A ploughing of land.

* Bible , Genesis xlv. 6.

Neither earing nor harvest.