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earlet|ˈɪəlɪt|
[f. ear n.1 + -let; in sense 1 after bracelet.]
†1. An ear-ring. Obs.
1609Bible (Douay) Prov. xxv. 12 A golden earlet.
2. Anything resembling a small ear.
†a. An auricle of the heart.
b. Bot. = auricle 2.
c. ? An attachment to a church bell.
1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. vii. 107 The parts of the Heart..are either externally seen, as the Earlets. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide i. iii. (1738) 27 There belong also to the Heart, two Auricles or Earlets. 1865tr. Hugo's Hunchback iv. iii. (Chapman and H.) 144 He seized the brazen monster by the earlets. 1883Syd. Soc. Lex., Earlet, an ear-like appearance produced by an indentation in the leaves of some of the foliose Hepaticæ.
d. = tragus, esp. when largely developed as in some bats.
1837Penny Cycl. VII. 25/2 The ears are large, insulated and lateral, with an internal earlet. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1072/1 Ears large, the tragus or earlet always existing. 1904Speaker 24 Dec. 315/2 The earlet, a curious development of the tragus in insectivorous bats. 1957Encycl. Brit. V. 596/2 The ‘earlet’, or tragus, is generally large in the insectivorous bats but is never present in the Megachiroptera nor in the insectivorous Rhinolophidae. |