Verb

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(dialectal)

* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I've hearn it said that when a man has eaten a hearty dinner, and goes to sleep with the hot sun pourin' right down on him, he's apt to see and hear a good many strange things before he wakes up. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=Charles Felton Pidgin, title=Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="'Tis a trifle early, but I hearn tell that lyin' makes people hungry." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Grace MacGowan Cooke, title=The Power and the Glory, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Like enough he's hearn of that silver mine, and that's the reason he's after Johnnie." }}

Verb

(head)

(hear)

Verb

(label) To perceive sounds through the ear.

(label) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}

(label) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) X:

Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”}}

(label) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).

(label) To receive information about; to come to learn of.

* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) :

Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank [...].

(label) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.

To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.