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; 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.

he sun is visible; day; especially, the dawn of day. The murderer, rising with the light, killeth the poor and needy. Job xxiv. 14.

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.

Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. Addison.

A person skilled in logic. Bacon. Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope.

One skilled in logography.

Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.

good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds. Shak. Luck penny, a small sum given back for luck to one who pays money. [Prov. Eng.] -- To be is luck,…

One skilled in the use of machine tools.

The act of killing a victim for sacrifice. [Obs.]

aordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle. The painter's magic skill. Cowper.

One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

To make account of, to esteem; to regard. -- To make away. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. Burton.