earmark

earmark is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

[2] A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark. Money is said to have no earmark. Wharton. Flying, he [a slave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark. Robynson (More`s Utopia). A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor. Burrow.

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