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Learning; especially, mathematics. [R.] Pope.

Contingency or liability; possibility or probability. Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance Some general maxims, or be right by chance. Pope.

indicate; to import; to denote. What mean these seven ewe lambs Gen. xxi. 29. Go ye, and learn what that me. Matt. ix. 13.

Moderately. [Obs.] A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.

To commit to memory; to learn by heart.

To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of. Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them. Atterbury.

A trade, art, or occupation. [Obs.] In youth he learned had a good mester. Chaucer.

the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man. [Written also moolah.]

Sourness of temper; sulenness. Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. I. Watts.

A philosophical or learned fool. [Obs.]

ion; to abase; to humble. With fasting mortified, worn out with tears. Harte. Mortify thy learned lust. Prior. Mortify, rherefore, your members which are upon the earth. Col. iii. 5.

f Thomas Aquinas, with critical revision to suit the exigencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.

Nurture; education; culture; bringing up. [Obs.] Nortelry . . . learned at the nunnery. Chaucer.

That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls. Hooker.

be obscured. Shak. There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this. Wake. And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame Dryden.

Of all varieties, forms, or kinds. "Omnifarious learning." Coleridge.

Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Crabb.

Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.

perate but on a few. Atterbury. A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live. Swift.

"Oracles of mode." Tennyson. The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. Macaulay.