Job xlii. 5.
Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimulation of the auditory
nerve; the stimulus (waves of sound) acting not directly on the nerve,
but through the medium of the endolymph on the delicate epithelium
cells, constituting the peripheral terminations of the nerve. See Ear.
2. Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience;
as, I could not obtain a hearing.
3. A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a
session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues.
His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing.
Shak.
Another hearing before some other court.
Dryden.
Hearing, as applied to equity cases, means the same thing that the word
trial does at law. Abbot.
4. Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot. "She's not
within hearing." Shak.
They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the
wave.
Tennyson.
Heark"en (h‰rk"'n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hearkened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Hearkening.] [OE. hercnen, hercnien, AS. hercnian, heorcnian, fr.
hiÈran, hran, to hear; akin to OD. harcken, horcken, LG. harken,
horken, G. horchen. See Hear, and cf. Hark.] 1. To listen; to lend the
ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to
obey or comply.
The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl.
Dryden.
Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which
I teach you.
Deut. iv. 1.
2. To inquire; to seek information. [Obs.] "Hearken after their
offense." Shak.
Syn. -- To attend; listen; hear; heed. See Attend, v. i.