Hear"ing, n. 1.
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the
faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing
is good.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the
ear.
Job xlii. 5.
&fist; Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimulation of
the auditory nerve; the stimulus (waves of sound) acting not directly
on the nerve, but through the medium of the endolymph on the delicate
epithelium cells, constituting the peripheral terminations of the
nerve. See Ear.
2. Attention to what is delivered;
opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a
hearing.
3. A listening to facts and evidence, for the
sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and
determining issues.
His last offenses to us
Shall have judicious hearing.
Shak.
Another hearing before some other
court.
Dryden.
&fist; Hearing, as applied to equity cases, means the same
thing that the word trial does at law. Abbot.
4. Extent within which sound may be heard;
sound; earshot. "She's not within hearing."
Shak.
They laid him by the pleasant shore,
And in the hearing of the wave.
Tennyson.
