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Learned or literary men. See Literatus. Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. Craik.

A learned person; a literatus. Sir W. Hamilton.

Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.

Much was in little writ. Dryden. There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance. Locke.

ace; manner; as, a proud or defiant look. "Gentle looks." Shak. Up ! up! my friends, and clear your looks. Wordsworth.

morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. The loose morality which he had learned. Sir W. Scott.

That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore. "The lore of war." Fairfax. His fai…

Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar] Such lousy learning as this is. Bale.

low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Matt. xi. 29.

Clear; transparent. " Lucid streams." Milton.

Lucid; clear; transparent. Thomson.

In a luculent manner; clearly.

Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. " Luminous eloquence." Macaulay. " A luminous statement." Brougham. Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.…

ntice; to attract. I am not lured with love. Piers Plowman. And various science lures the learned eye. Gay.

To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify. We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city. Hammond.

The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth. Payne.

of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences. Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance. Swift.

more of me than of a slave." Dryden. -- To make one's law (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge. -- To make out. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case. (c) To make complete…

, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business. I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly. Shak.