heaping

[English heap; -ing.] Filled up, heaped up; as, a heaping teaspoonful. heap-y, a. [Eng. heap; -y.] Lying in heaps; heaped. (Dryden: Virgil; Ecl. vii. 70.) hear, *heare, *heer, *heere, *here, *heren, *huyre (pa. t. * herd , * herde , heard ; pa. par. * herd , *iherd, heard), v. t . & i. [A. S. hyran , héran (pa. t. hýrde , pa. par. gehýred ); cogn. with Dut. hooren; Icel. heyra ; Dan. höre ; Sw. höra ; Goth. hausjan; Ger. hören; O. H. Ger. horjan .] A. Transitive : 1. To perceive by the sense of hearing; to perceive or be cognizant of by the ear. "He hurde angles synge an hey by the lyste thys." Robert of Gloucester, p. 279. 2. To give audience to; to listen to the words of. "He sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ." -Acts xxiv. 24. 2147 4. To be a hearer of; to attend the preaching or ministration of. ( Colloquial .) 5. To try in a court of justice; as, The case was heard last term. 6. To attend at a court of justice for the hearing of judicially; to sit in a court or as a judge for the trying and determination of. "Hear the causes, and judge righteously."- Deut. i. 16. 7. To attend as a worshiper at. "And fasteth ofte and hereth me e." Gower: C. A. , 1. 8. To regard with favor; to listen or accede to the request or claims of. "They think they shall be heard for their much speaking."- Matthew vi. 7. 9. To pay heed or attention to; to respect, to heed, to obey; to attend to the teaching, doctrines, or advice of. "They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them."- Luke xvi. 29. 10. To learn; to be taught. hearse 3. An audience; a reception for the purpose of listening to what one has to say. "As a private person he requested a hearing , and protested, in the name of his brethren, against the royal mandate."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xix. 4. A judicial trial or investigation of a suit; the listening to, considering, and determining of the facts, evidence, and arguments in a cause. "Leave you to the hearing of the cause." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , il. 1. 5. Reach of the ear; the distance within which one can hear; earshot. "The fox had the good luck to be within hearing." L'Estrange Fables. 6. A scolding, a lecture. II. Anat . & Phys . It is on the auditory nerve, the portio moll is of the seventh pair, situated in the temporal bone, that the sonorous undulations make their impre ion, the vibrations being propagated through the surrounding medium, generally air, by the corresponding waves or undulations they pro "I speak to the world those things which I have heard duce in it. A slight laxity of the membrana tym of him." -John viii. 26. IMG:content-1051.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To have or enjoy the sense of hearing, or the faculty of perceiving sound. "The ear is not that which hears ; but the organ by which we hear."-Reid: On the Intellectual and Active Powers , E ay ii., ch. i. 2. To hearken, to listen, to attend. "Hear, all ye Trojans, all ye Grecian bands." Pope: Homer's Iliad, iii. 123. 3. To learn by listening; to be told; to receive from another information by word of mouth. "He began with right a mery chere, His tale anon, and saide as ye shal here ." Chaucer: C. T. , 860. *4. To be heard of; to be reported. *5. To be called; to answer to a name. (A Latin- ism.) "Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?" Milton: P. L. , iii. 7. (1) * To hear a bird sing: To receive private communication. "I will lay odds, that ere this year expire, We bear our civil swords and native fire As far as France. I hear a bird so sing." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . II., v. 5. (2) To hear tell of : To hear by report; to be informed of. ( Vulgar .) (3) To hear say: To hear by report. "For I heard say that there were some homely thieves, some pickers in this worshipful house."-Latimer: Sermon on the Gospel on St. Andrew's Day. *(4) To hear well or ill : To be praised ( or censured); to be well ( or ill) spoken of. "They are these make mee heare so ill, both in towne and countrey, as I doe." Ben Jonson: Masques; Love Re stored. hëar, interj . [Properly the imperative of the verb, and more fully hear him (q. v.).] An exclamation or cry used in reference to the words of a speaker; it may indicate, according to the tone in which it is uttered, admiration, acquiescence, indignation, or derision. It is frequently repeated as "Hear, hear ." *hear him, interj . (See extract.) "The phrase ' hear him ,' a phrase which had originally been used only to silence irregular noises, and to remind members of the duty of attending to the discu ion, had, during some years, been gradually becoming what it now is that is to say, a cry indicative, according to the tone, of admiration, acquiescence, indignation, or derision." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xi. heard, pret . & pa . par . [HEAR, v.] hëar-er, *heer-er, *her-er, *hier-ere, s. [Eng. 1. One who hears or listens to anything; an auditor; one of an audience. IMG:content-1052.png:[blocks in formation] 2. One who attends the ministry or discourses of another. hear-ing, *her-ing, *heer-yng, pr. par., a. & s. [HEAR, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. In the same sense as II. 2. The act of listening to anything; attention to what is orally communicated; audience. "Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends." Shakesp.: Richard II., iii. 3. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; pan i is usual, permitting vibrations in accordance with grave or deep tones; by the action of the tensor tympani this may be tightened so as to vibrate with sharper or higher tones. This sense may be increased by cultivation, as in the case of musicians, and in people exposed to danger, or living by hunting. The pitch depends on the number of vibrations in a given time, the high notes being the quickest, and the low the slowest. The strength or loudne depends on the force and extent of the vibrations. The timbre or quality of musical sounds, as of the flute, violin, ., all sounding a note of the same pitch, depends on differences of form in the undulations.