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Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.] I am absolute 't was very Cloten. Shak.

te 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.

nfessedly 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.

To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite. A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. I. Taylor.

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. Learning is but an adjunct to our self. Shak.

improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of…

or measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.

ores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

pecif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.

columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

One learned about algæ; a student of algology.

athers. Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.

Away from; clear from. [Obs.] Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands. Milton.

A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. Abp. Sancroft.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.