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hark(dictionary)

hark (iou)



hark verb & noun. [h¨»:k] ME.
[Corresp. to Old Frisian herkia, harkia rel. to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Flemish dial. horken, Old High German horechen (German horchen): cf. HEARKEN.]
A. verb.
verb trans. Listen to; hear with active attention. Now arch. & poet. ME.
J. Masefield I've shaked to hark The peewits..in the dark.
verb intrans. Listen. (Foll. by at, to.) ME.
G. Mortimer 'I can't trust you...' 'Hark at him!' laughed Mrs. Larpenti. S. Sassoon Hark! There's the big bombardment.
verb intrans. Speak in one's ear; whisper, mutter. Scot. & north. L16.
Hunting.
a. verb intrans. Go (away, forward, off, etc.). Chiefly in imper. E17.
b. verb intrans. Foll. by back: (of hounds) retrace the course taken to find a lost scent; fig. revert (to a subject). E19.
R. Sutcliff He harked back to an earlier point in their discussion.
c. verb trans. Urge (hounds) on, forward, with encouraging cries; call (hounds) back. E19.
b. noun. The action or an act of harking (away, back, etc.); an utterance of 'hark!'. M18.
harker noun (rare) E19.