hark

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The rosiness of the combs of these strapping hens is good augury;--hark, a cackle from the barn--another egg is laid--and chanticleer, stretching himself up on claw-tip, and clapping his wings of the bonny beaten gold, crows aloud to his sultana till the welkin rings.

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  1. intransitive verb To listen attentively.
  2. idiom hark back To return to a previous point, as in a narrative.

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  1. Middle English harken, herken, from Old English *heorcian.

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  1. Formerly also heark; from Middle English herken, from Anglo-Saxon *hercian, *hyrcian (not found, the only recorded form being that extended with verb-formative -n, namely, hercnian, hyrcnian, heorcnian (Middle English herknen, English harken, q. v.), = Middle Dutch horken, horcken, harcken = OFries. herkia, harkia, North Friesic harke = Middle Low German horken = Old High German hōrechen, Middle High German hōrchen, horchen, German horchen), hark, listen; a derivative, with formative -c, -k (cf. smir-k, stal-k, tal-k, dal-k, etc.), of Anglo-Saxon hy¯ran, hiéran, hēran = Dutch hooren = Old High German hōrjan, Middle High German G. hören, etc., hear: see hear. Cf. harken, the same word with additional suffix.
 

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