Audible, 1) so as to be easily heard, loud; adverbially: “the very mercy of the law cries out most a.” Meas. V, 413.
2) capable of hearing, attentive, opposed to deaf: “let me have war; it's spritely walking, a., and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible,” Cor. IV, 5, 238.