Lear

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Something learned; a lesson.
   Scotland, countable, uncountable
3. The name of a legendary early king of Britain, the central character in Shakespeare's King Lear.
4. Learning, lore; doctrine.
   Scotland, countable, uncountable
5. Clipping of Learjet.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

Equivalents

Examples

“when all other helpes she saw⟳ to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].”

“'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think⟳. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like⟳ ony ither sober, godly person.'”

“They dressed up in maids' array, And passd for sisters fair; With ae consent gaed ower the sea, For to seek⟳ after lear.”

“First-generation Lears are beasts to fly⟳.”

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