If you find none, you must hearken out a vein and buy.
B. Johnson.
Heark"en*er (-r), n. One who hearkens; a listener.
Hear"sal (hr"sal), n. Rehearsal. [Obs.] Spenser.
Hear"say` (hr"s`), n. Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard
from another.
Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our
great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life
and conversation.
Prof. Wilson.
Hearsay evidence (Law), that species of testimony which consists in a
narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a
few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. Abbott.
Hearse (hrs), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A hind in the second year of its
age. [Eng.] Wright.
Hearse (hrs), n. [See Herse.] 1. A framework of wood or metal placed
over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall;
also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church,
under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. [Obs.]
Oxf. Gloss.
2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [Archaic] "Underneath
this marble hearse." B. Johnson.
Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.