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   ear-like
         adj 1: having a shape resembling an ear [syn: {auriform}, {ear-
                  shaped}, {ear-like}]

English Dictionary: early wake-robin by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earless
adj
  1. lacking external ears; "earless seals"
    Antonym(s): eared
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earless lizard
n
  1. any of several slender lizards without external ear openings: of plains of western United States and Mexico
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earless seal
n
  1. any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers
    Synonym(s): earless seal, true seal, hair seal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earliest
adv
  1. with the least delay; "the soonest I can arrive is 3 P.M."
    Synonym(s): soonest, earliest
adj
  1. (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early; "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"
    Synonym(s): earlier, earliest
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
early childhood
n
  1. the early stage of growth or development [syn: infancy, babyhood, early childhood]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
early coral root
n
  1. plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska
    Synonym(s): early coral root, pale coral root, Corallorhiza trifida
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
early spider orchid
n
  1. spring-blooming spider orchid having a flower with yellow or green or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
    Synonym(s): early spider orchid, Ophrys sphegodes
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
early wake-robin
n
  1. a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States
    Synonym(s): dwarf-white trillium, snow trillium, early wake-robin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earlyish
adj
  1. being somewhat early; "at an earlyish hour"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ehrlich
n
  1. German bacteriologist who found a `magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915)
    Synonym(s): Ehrlich, Paul Ehrlich
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Erle Stanley Gardner
n
  1. writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970)
    Synonym(s): Gardner, Erle Stanley Gardner
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Earles penny \Earles" pen`ny\ [Cf. {Arles}, 4th {Earnest}.]
      Earnest money. Same as {Arles penny}. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Earless \Ear"less\, a.
      Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear. --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Early \Ear"ly\, a. [Compar. {Earlier} ([etil]r"l[icr]*[etil]r);
      superl. {Earliest}.] [OE. earlich. [root]204. See {Early},
      adv.]
      1. In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season;
            prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to
            {late}; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.
  
                     Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
                                                                              --Burke.
  
                     The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass
                     springing up about them.                     --Hawthorne.
  
      2. Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the
            first of successive acts, events, etc.
  
                     Seen in life's early morning sky.      --Keble.
  
                     The forms of its earlier manhood.      --Longfellow.
  
                     The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth
                     summer.                                             --J. C.
                                                                              Shairp.
  
      {Early English} (Philol.) See the Note under {English}.
  
      {Early English architecture}, the first of the pointed or
            Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman style
            in the 12th and 13th centuries.
  
      Syn: Forward; timely; not late; seasonable.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Earlock \Ear"lock`\, n. [AS. e[a0]r-locca.]
      A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See
      {Lovelock}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Queening \Queen"ing\, n. [See {Queen apple}.] (Bot.)
      Any one of several kinds of apples, as {summer queening},
      {scarlet queening}, and {early queening}. An apple called the
      queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Erewhile \Ere`while"\, Erewhiles \Ere`whiles"\, adv.
      Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. [Archaic]
  
               I am as fair now as I was erewhile.         --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Erlking \Erl"king`\, n. [G. erlk[94]nig, fr. Dan. ellekonge
      elfking.]
      A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a
      spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp.
      to children.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Earlsboro, OK (town, FIPS 22500)
      Location: 35.32576 N, 96.79802 W
      Population (1990): 535 (213 housing units)
      Area: 23.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 74840

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Early County, GA (county, FIPS 99)
      Location: 31.33042 N, 84.90920 W
      Population (1990): 11854 (4714 housing units)
      Area: 1324.2 sq km (land), 13.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Earlysville, VA
      Zip code(s): 22936

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   earliest deadline first
  
      (EDF) A strategy for {CPU} or
      disk access {scheduling}.   With EDF, the task with the
      earliest deadline is always executed first.
  
      {Scan-EDF} is an example.
  
      (1995-11-15)
  
  
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