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long-eared, a.
1. Having long ears; used spec. in the names of some animals.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Orejudo, long eared. 1646G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 I. 60 With long-eard Caps, and Bells to make a noise. 1752J. Hill Hist. Animals 582 The long-eared, Syrian Goat. 1807Home in Phil. Trans. XCVII. 176 The stomach of the long-eared bat. 1831A. Wilson & Bonaparte Amer. Ornith. I. 104 The long-eared owl is fourteen inches and a half long. 187.Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 96 The Long-eared Fox (Megalotis).
2. In allusion to the ass's ears: Asinine.
1605Camden Rem. (1637) 340 They are counted long eared which delight in them. 1789Wolcot (P. Pindar) Subj. for Paint. iii, And like some long-ear'd creatures, bray ‘what art?’ 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. i. 12 You are fallen in an evil, heavy-laden, long-eared age. 1901Scotsman 3 Oct. 4/2 The feeling of weariness with the war..is getting the better of the long-eared multitude. |