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whether the reward is received or not). The high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn. Milton.

xed determination; eagerness; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.

Serious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In an earnest manner.

The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.

Full of anxiety or yearning. [Obs.] P. Fletcher.

That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural. As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings. Burke.

See Bairn. [Obs.]

having knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.

The quality or state of being clear.

Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful. [Obs.] Shak. -- Dearn"ly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price. The dearness of corn. Swift.

A fearless person.

Imperfectly learned.

nstruction 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.…

Such as can be learned.

Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing. Locke. Words…

One who learns; a scholar.

The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

To learn wrongly.