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s, a kind man; a kind heart. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith.

is king or has control. Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Shak. You're welcome, Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom. Shak.

That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 1 Cor. viii. 1. Ignorance is the curse of God; -Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

o. [Colloq.] See To knock under, under Knock, v. i. (b) To apply one's self vigorously or earnestly to; as, to knuckle to work. [Colloq.]

toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison.

Lore; learning. [Obs.]

One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. "A learned laureate." Cleveland.

The laity; the common people. [Obs.] The learned have no more privilege than the lay. B. Jonson.

Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as lean copy, matter, or type.

To learn. See Lere, to learn. [Obs.]

ranted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license. David earnestly asked leave of me. 1 Sam. xx. 6. No friend has leave to bear away the dead. Dryden.

To learn. [Obs.] See Lere, to learn.

Learning; lesson; lore. [Obs.] Spenser.

Learned. [Obs.] " Lewed man or lered." Chaucer.

Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.

Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. " A lettered education." Collier.

Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. " A spirit of levity and libertinism." Atterbury. He never employed his omnipotence out of levity. Calamy.

Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] For if priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust. Chaucer. So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. Sit. J. Davies.

The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.