ear (3)

i. [EAR (2), 8.] To shoot as in ears; to form ears as corn. "It cannot ear well by means of heat." -Holland : Plu tarch , p. 825. *ear-a-ble, a. [Eng. ear (1), v.; -able.] That can be plowed or tilled; arable. "So well for medowe, pasture, as earable, ."- Archæ ologia, xiii. 315.