(chiefly music, language learning) To play (an instrument) or sing or to learn music without reading or memorizing sheet music; to learn a language without instruction. / To do by guessing, to improvise.

Pronunciation spelling of hear.

(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. / (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.

(countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.

(intransitive) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.

(archaic) To plough.

(humorous) To take in with the ears; to hear. / To hold by the ears.

(programming) Initialism of Enterprise Application Archive (a file format used to package Java applications) / (nutrition) Initialism of estimated average requirements.

(medicine) Describing a type of hearing aid that fits within the concha of the wearer's ear. / (agriculture) Describing a maturing/mature cereal crop.

plural of eare