[ verb ] listen; used mostly in the imperative <verb.perception>harkenhearken
Hark \Hark\ (h[aum]rk), 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.
Instead there are sudden, arbitrary switches for variety's sake, with colourful patches which hark directly back to Stravinsky, and for emphasis some blatant Hollywood effects (scored with unblinking crudity).
Anyone worried about the effect on interest rates should hark back to the 1970s when we had a really soft dollar, 14% inflation and 21% interest rates.
So far, however, Mr. Lewis hasn't pursued any sort of high-profile union-busting approach to cutting labor costs that would hark back to the controllers' strike.
'It's a disgraceful lack of self-discipline,' said one. Her close friends appeared to hark back to a golden age which Mr Major now says never was.
"The fighter planes hark back to chivalry and knighthood," said Price, who operates golf courses when he isn't flying one of his two Spitfires over the Santa Monica Mountains.
The Grammy award-winning artist's new album and hit single of the same name, "Roll With It," hark back to his days in the mid-1960s with the rhythm and blues-styled Spencer Davis Group.
The positions of these senators can be described as reactionary because they hark back to the era when the Liberals were trying to fence off Canada, culturally and economically, from its big neighbor.