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Hark definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

H`ARK, v.t. [contracted from hearken, which see.]
To listen; to lend the ear.
This word is rarely or never used, except in the imperative mode, hark, that is, listen, hear.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: listen; used mostly in the imperative [syn: hark, harken, hearken]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English herkien; akin to Old High German h?rechen to listen, Old English h?eran to hear Date: 14th century to pay close attention ; listen

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. (usu. in imper.) archaic listen attentively. Phrases and idioms: hark back revert to a topic discussed earlier. Etymology: ME herkien f. OE heorcian (unrecorded): cf. HEARKEN: hark back was orig. a hunting call to retrace steps

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hark Hark, v. i. [OE. herken. See Hearken.] To listen; to hearken. [Now rare, except in the imperative form used as an interjection, Hark! listen.] --Hudibras. Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting), cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting. To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression. He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. Haggard. He harked back to the subject. --W. E. Norris.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(harks, harking, harked) • hark back to 1. If you say that one thing harks back to another thing in the past, you mean it is similar to it or takes it as a model. ...pitched roofs, which hark back to the Victorian era. PHRASAL VERB: V P P n 2. When people hark back to something in the past, they remember it or remind someone of it. The result devastated me at the time. Even now I hark back to it. PHRASAL VERB: V P P n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

interj. Hear, listen, give ear, attend, hearken.

Moby Thesaurus

NB, attend, attend to, auscultate, be all ears, bend an ear, bug, cock the ears, eavesdrop, examine by ear, give attention, give audience to, give ear, give ear to, hear, hear out, hearken, hearken to, heed, intercept, lend an ear, listen, listen at, listen in, listen to, mark, mind, note, notice, remark, sit in on, tap, wiretap