† 1. An ear-ring. Obs.
1609. Bible (Douay), Prov. xxv. 12. A golden earlet.
2. Anything resembling a small ear. † a. An auricle of the heart. b. Bot. = AURICLE 2. c. ? An attachment to a church bell.
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., II. vii. 107/1. The parts of the Heart … are either externally seen as the Earlets.
c. 1720. W. Gibson, Farrier’s Guide, I. iii. (1738), 27. There belong also to the Heart two Auricles, or Earlets.
1865. trans. Hugo’s Hunchback, IV. iii. (Chapman and H.), 144. He seized the brazen monster by the earlets.
1883. Syd. Soc. Lex., Earlet, an ear-like appearance produced by an indentation in the leaves of some of the foliose Hepaticæ.
