hark, harken, hearken
(verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative
Source: WordNet® 3.1
harken (third-person singular simple present harkens, present participle harkening, simple past and past participle harkened)
(ambitransitive, chiefly, US) Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.
(intransitive, US, figuratively) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
Where sense 2 is concerned, the bare form harken has been used since the 1980s, though some authorities frown upon this and prefer the traditional form hark back.
• hanker
Source: Wiktionary
Hark"en, v. t. & i.
Definition: To hearken. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 June 2025
(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
