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Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence. G. West.

Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.

A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity. The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears. B. Jonson. The dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. Swift.

ht; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.

The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.

That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life. Shipmen that had knowledge of the sea. 1 Kings ix. 27.

abors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. eccl. v. 12.

Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.

A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. Lapidary's lathe, mill, or wheel, a machine consisting essentially of a revolving lap on a vertical spindle, used by a lapidary for grinding and polishing.

One skilled in laryngoscopy.

One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.

n; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something. "Learn to do well." Is. i. 17. Now learn a parable of the fig tree. Matt. xxiv. 32.…

The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

The art of healing; skill of a physician. [Archaic] Chaucer.

One skilled in the laws; a writer on law. Milman. J. Morley.

A person skilled in languages. There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. Macaulay.

One who is skilled in lithology.

One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.

One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.