%hears%

n. Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hearsay evidence (Law), that species of testimony which consists in a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [ Obs. ] “Would she were hearsed at my foot.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A hind in the second year of its age. [ Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Herse. ] 1. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. [ Obs. ] Oxf. Gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [ Archaic ] “Underneath this marble hearse.” B. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. Fairfax [ 1913 Webster ]

Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Set down, set down your honorable load,
It honor may be shrouded in a hearse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Suitable to a funeral. [ 1913 Webster ]

If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inhearsed p. pr. & vb. n. Inhearsing. ] To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To rehearse or quote incorrectly. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dress rehearsal (Theater), a private preparatory performance of a drama, opera, etc., in costume. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rehearsed p. pr. & vb. n. Rehearsing. ] [ OE. rehercen, rehersen, OF. reherser, rehercier, to harrow over again; pref. re- re- + hercier to harrow, fr. herce a harrow, F. herse. See Hearse. ] 1. To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul. 1 Sam. xvii. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To narrate; to relate; to tell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. Judg. . v. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To recite; recapitulate; recount; detail; describe; tell; relate; narrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To recite or repeat something for practice. “There will we rehearse.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rehearses. [ 1913 Webster ]