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English Dictionary: Hark by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hark
v
  1. listen; used mostly in the imperative [syn: hark, harken, hearken]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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