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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



914 words match “LEAR”

HALF-LEARNED a.
Imperfectly learned.
INFRATROCHLEAR a.
Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.
INTRANUCLEAR a.
Within the nucleus of a cell; as. the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis.
MISLEARN v.
To learn wrongly.
MULTINUCLEAR a.
Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells.
NUCLEAL; NUCLEAR a.
Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.
OUTLEARN v. 2 definitions
To excel or surpass in learing.
OVERLEARNED a.
Too learned. -- O"ver*learn"ed, adv. -- O"ver*learn"ed*ness, n.
PALEARCTIC a.
Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
PERINUCLEAR a.
Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.
POLYNUCLEAR a.
Containing many nuclei.
SACCULO-COCHLEAR a.
pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.
SUPRATROCHLEAR a.
Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.
TROCHLEAR n.
d like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye. Trochlear nerve. See Pathetic nerve, under Pathetic.
TROCHLEARY a.
Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.
UNLEARN v. 2 definitions
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.
UNLEARNED a. 3 definitions
Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.
ABECEDARIAN n.
One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
ABLATIVE a.
alled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.
ABNODATE v.
To clear (tress) from knots. [R.] Blount.
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