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<p><b>3.</b> <def>To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; <as>as, to <ex>hear</ex> a concert; to <ex>hear</ex> Mass.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To give attention to as a teacher or judge.</def>

<blockquote>Thy matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the king to <b>hear</b> thee. <i>2 Sam. xv. 3.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I beseech your honor to <b>hear</b> me one single word. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and answer favorably; to favor.</def>

<blockquote>I love the Lord, because he hath <b>heard</b> my voice. <i>Ps. cxvi. 1.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They think that they shall be <b>heard</b> for their much speaking. <i>Matt. vi. 7.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Hear him</col>. <cd>See Remark, under <er>Hear</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt></cd> -- <col>To hear a bird sing</col>, <cd>to receive private communication. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> <i>Shak</i>.</cd> -- <col>To hear say</col>, <cd>to hear one say; to learn by common report; to receive by rumor. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

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<hw>Hear</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound.</def> "The <i>Hearing</i> ear."

<i>Prov. xx. 12.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen.</def>

<blockquote>So spake our mother Eve, and Adam <b>heard</b>, Well pleased, but answered not. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive information by report or by letter.</def>

<blockquote>I have <b>heard</b>, sir, of such a man. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I must <b>hear</b> from thee every day in the hour. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To hear ill</col>, <cd>to be blamed. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd>

<blockquote>Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he <b>heard ill</b> for his temporizing and slow proceedings. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To hear well</col>, <cd>to be praised.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cs>

<note>&hand; <i>Hear</i>, or <i>Hear him</i>, is often used in the imperative, especially in the course of a speech in English assemblies, to call attention to the words of the speaker.</note>

<blockquote><b>Hear him</b>, . . . a cry indicative, according to the tone, of admiration, acquiescence, indignation, or derision. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Heard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> of <er>Hear</er>.</def>

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<hw>Hear"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who hears; an auditor.</def>

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<hw>Hear"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; <as>as, my <ex>hearing</ex> is good</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I have heard of thee by the <b>hearing</b> of the ear. <i>Job xlii. 5.</i></blockquote>