earache

[Eng. ear, and ache (q. v.).] An ache or pain in the ear. *ear-al, a . [Eng.ear; -al.] Receiving with the ear; hearers only, and not doers. "They are not true penitents that are merely earal, verbal, and worded men." -Hewyt : Sermons (1658), p. 34. ëar-coc-kle, s. [Eng. ear , and cockle .] Bot. Pathol.: A disease of wheat, in most places called Purples. The grain becomes blackened and contracted, owing to the presence of a multitude of small worms belonging to the genus Vibrio. ( Treas . of Bot . ) *eard-folc, *erd-folc, s . The people of any particular country.