'Burnt ear' definitions:
Definition of 'Burnt ear'
From: GCIDE
- Burnt \Burnt\, p. p. & a. Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. [1913 Webster]
- Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut.
- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. --[2 Sam. xxiv. 22.] [1913 Webster]