Hast thou not learned me how To make perfumes ?
Shak.
Learn formerly had also the sense of teach, in accordance with the
analogy of the French and other languages, and hence we find it with
this sense in Shakespeare, Spenser, and other old writers. This usage
has now passed away. To learn is to receive instruction, and to teach
is to give instruction. He who is taught learns, not he who teaches.
Learn, v. i. To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in
acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction;
as, this child learns quickly.
Take my yoke upon you and learn of me.
Matt. xi. 29.
To learn by heart. See By heart, under Heart. -- To learn by rote, to
memorize by repetition without exercise of the understanding.
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Learn"a*ble (lrn"*b'l), a. Such as can be learned.
Learn"ed (lrn"d), a. Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or
characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite;
well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned
book; a learned theory.
The learnedlover lost no time.
Spenser.
Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
Locke.
Words of learned length and thundering sound.
Goldsmith.
The learned, learned men; men of erudition; scholars.
-- Learn"ed*ly, adv. Learn"ed*ness, n.
Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they.
Swift.
Learn"er (?), n. One who learns; a scholar.
Learn"ing, n. [AS. leornung.] 1. The acquisition of knowledge or skill;
as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.
2. The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired
knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition;
literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning.
Book learning. See under Book.
Syn. -- Literature; erudition; lore; scholarship; science; letters. See
Literature.
Leas"a*ble (?), a. [From 2d Lease.] Such as can be leased.
Lease (?), v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather,
read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.] To
gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] Dryden.
Lease (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leased (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Leasing.]
[F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to
loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See Lax, and cf. Lesser.] 1. To
grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements,
and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to
a tenant; -- sometimes with out.
There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives.
Addison.
2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his
land from the owner.
Lease (?), n. [Cf. OF. lais. See Lease, v. t.] 1. A demise or letting
of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term
of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the
lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or
compensation.