earbored

Having the ears bored, as a sign of servitude. "And she, like to some servile ear - bored slave, Must play and sing."- Bp. Hall: Satires, vi. 1. 1577 2. A distinguishing mark, as the cutting of the ear of a sheep, by which its owner may identify it as his property. "Money is said to have no ear -mark."-Wharton. between apartments and shops, in dwellings, warehouses, and factories. Dr. Arnott, a physician, who became partially deaf from a cold contracted in traveling, first devised the pair of shells ears which extend the sur