Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hark"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hark \Hark\, 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hark
v : listen; used mostly in the imperative [syn: {harken}, {hearken}]
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