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The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

To learn out [i. e., completely, utterly]; to exhaust knowledge of. Naught, according to his mind, He could outlearn. Spenser. Men and gods have not outlearned it [love]. Emerson.

Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.

Too learned. -- O"ver*learn"ed, adv. -- O"ver*learn"ed*ness, n.

Dung; excrement. [Obs.] [Written also shern.] Holland.

Not earned; not gained by labor or service. Unearned increment (Polit. Econ.), a increase in the value of land due to no labor or expenditure on the part of the owner, but to natural causes, such as the increase of population, the growth of a town in the vicinity, or the like. Some hold that this should belong to the n…

To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of. I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything. Milner.

Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] "She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it." Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. Shak.

Desirous. [Obs.] Ormulum. P. Fletcher.

With yearning.

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used a rennet for curdling milk. [Scot.]

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

lled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

e from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

fessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.