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Show g He would Jear wife The lion fteop to him in lowl Spenfer's Fairy Queen A, leffon hard You taught me language, aixd my profit on' 13, T know not how to curfe : the red plague rid you Shatke[p. Tempeft For Jearning me your language A thoufand more mifchances than this one Have /earn'd me how to brook this patiently. Shake/ Haft thou not Jearn'd me ho .. To make perfumes s? J Lears @ # T Shakefps Cymbeline pattern tak with of Take my yoke upon you, and Jearn of me fo Matth. xi. 29 1 am meek and lowly In imitation of founds, that Man fhould be th feacher is no part of the matter; for birds will /zar Bacon's Natural Hiftory one of another Lrar~ED. adj. [from Jearn. 1. Verfed in {cience and literature Buch labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the /earned fmile Pope "The /carned met with free approach Swift Although they came not in a coach Thebeft account is given of them by their ow authors : but I truft more to the table of the learne Arbuthnot on Coins bithop of Bath 2. Skilled ; fkilful ; knowing with 7z Though train'd in arms, and /Jearr'd én martial arts Thou chufeft not to conquer men but hearts Granville 3. Skilled in fcholaftick, as diftinét fro other knowledge Locke may be little knowing Le'arRNEDLY. adw. [from Jearned.] Wit knowledge; with fkill The apoftle feemed in his eyes but Zearnedly mad Hooker Muc He fpoke, and Jearnedly, for life; but al Was either pitied in him, or forgotten Shakefpearc Ev'ry coxcomb fwears as learnedly as they. Swift. Le'arNING. #. /. [from leara. 1. Literature; fkill in languages or fciences; generally fcholaftick knowledge Qearning hath its infancy, when it is almoft child¥h; then its youth, when luxuriant and juvenile then its ftrength of years, when folid; and, laftly its old age, when dry and exhauft Bacon To tongue or pudding thou haft no pretence Learning thy talent is, but mine is fenfe Prisr As Mofes was learned in all the wifdom of th Egyptians, fo it is manifeft from this chapter, tha St. Paul was a great mafter in all the learning of th 2. Skill in any thing good or bad Bentley An art of contradi€tion by way of fcorn, a Zayning wherewith we were long fithence forewarned that the miferable times whereunto we are falle fhould abound Hooker Le'arner. n. /. [from Jearn.] One wh is yet in his rudiments; one who is ac-guiring fome new art or knowledge The late /earners cannot fo well take the ply except it be in fome minds that have not fuffere themfelves to fix B 0 Nor can alearner work fo cheap as a fkilful pracGraunt's Bills of M};-tu.'i:_y LEASE. #. /. {/aiffer, French Spelman. 1. A contract by which, in confideration o fome payment, a temporary pofleflion i granted of houfes or lands Why I hav t t e h o f r t a t o leafes, as on a worfe f Savift 2. An tenure Our high-plac'd Macbet Shall live the /eafe of nature Shake[peare Thou to give the world increafe Short'ned haft thy own life's leafe . u n t r [ a @ To L coufin, wer't thou regent of the world Xt veere 2 fhame 1o let this Jand by leafe Milton T let by leafe f m n n t t e e g h e a / c v t Whe o a r o p i o t r t t e t t pay the grea e f l A r c v t t e t t a f and th n e g . c u , e e [ n v ToLras to gather what the harveft men leave But harveft done, to chare-work did afpire Meat, drink, and two-pence, was her daily hire Dryden Le'aser. #. /. [from Jeafe. gatherer after the reaper Shakefp Gleaner There was no office which a man from Englan might not have; and I looked upon all who wer born here as only in the condition of /eafers an Swift gleaners LEASH. . /. [/éf, French; let/e, Dutch laccio, Italian. 1. A leather thong, by which a falcone holds his hawk greyhound or a courfer leads hi Hanmer Holding Corioli in the name of Rome Shakefpeare ‘What I was, I am More ftraining on, for plucking back ; not followin 2. A tierce Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale three I am fworn brother to a /ea/b of drawers, and ca call them all by their Chriftian names Shake/p Some thought when he did gabbl Th' ad heard three labourers of Babel Or Cerberus himfelf pronounc Hudibras they are a leafh o A leafpr of languages at once Thou art a living comedy dull devils Dennis's Letters 3. A band wherewith to tie any thing i general ‘The ravithed foul being fhewn fuch game, woul break thofe /eafbes that tie her to the body. Boy/e 7o Leasu. w. a. [from the noun. bind; to hold in a ftring T Then fhould the warlike Harry, like himfelf Aflume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels Lcafpt in like hounds, fhould famine, fword, and fire Crouch for employment Shakefp. Henry V. Le'asinG. u. f. [leare, Saxon. falfehood O ye fon of men ho Lies long will ye have fuc pleafure in vanity, and feek after Jeafing LeasT. adj. the fuperlative of /istle. [1 He *mongft ladies wanld their fortunes rea Out of their hands, and merry leafings tell Hubberd's Tale He hates foul /eafings and vile flattery Two filthy blots in noble gentery. - Hubberd's Tale That falfe pilgrim which that Jafing told ‘Was indeed old Archimage Fairy Queen I have ever verified my friend With all the fize that verit Would without lapfing fuffer: nay, fometimes Like to 2 bowl upon a fubtle groun T've tumbled paft the throw ; and in his praif Have almoft ftampt the leafing Shakefpeare As folks, quoth Richard prone to Jeafi Say things at firft, becaufe th}c)y're pleafinfig‘ ;g "Then prove what they have once afferted Nor care to have their lie deferted analogous to /g/5 5 but furely the prof Little be yond others; {mallett I am not worthy of the /eaft of all the merciey Gen. xxxii. 10 fhewed to thy fervant A man can no more have a pofitive idea of the greateft than he has of the /eaf fpace Lack LEeAsT. adv. In the loweft degree; in degree below others ; lefs than any othe way He refolv'd to wave his fuit Or for a while play /eaft in fight Hudibras Ev'n that avert; I chufe it not Drydes But tafte it as the /eaff unhappy lot No man more truly knows to place a right vajye on your friendfhip, than he who /zaff deferves itop all other accounts than his due fenfe of it Pope At LeasT At the LEasT T fay no more; no to demand or affir At LEASTWISE more than is barely fufficient; at the loweft degree He who tempts, though in vain, at /aft afperfe The tempted with dithonour Milton He from my fide fubducting, took perhap More than enoughj; at /leaf on her beftowe Too much of ornament in outward fho Elaborate, of inward lefs exa& Milton Upon the maft they faw a young man, at leaftif Every eftect doth after a fort contain, at Jeaflwif refemble, the caufe from which it proceedeth Hooker Honour and fame at /eaf? the thund'rer ow'd And ill he pays the promife of a God Pope The remedies, if any, are to be propofed from conftant courfe of the milke diet, continueda leaft a year Temple A fiend may deceive 2 creature of more excellency than himfelf, at /eaf# by the tacit permiffio of the omnifcient Being Dryden 2. It has a denfe implying doubt; to fay no more; to fay the leaft; not to fa all that might be faid Whether fuch virtue fpent now fail' New angels to create, if they at feaf Are his created Lr'asy. adj fro [This word feems forme the fame root with loifir, French or log/e. Flimfy Not in ufe He never leaveth texture while the fenfe itfelf be lef loofe and Zeafy Le'aTuer of wea Afcham's Schoolmafker a. /. [18en Saxon leadt 1. Drefled hides of animals He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdleo leather about his loins 2 Kings i And if two boots keep out the weather What need you have two hides of leatber 2. Skin ironically Prio Returning found in limb and wind Excgpt fome learher loft behind Sawift 3. Itisoften ufedin com pofition for Jeatbern ‘The fhepherd's homely curds Hx'a: cold thin drink out of his Jeather bottle ls, far beyond a prince's delicacies Le'ATHERCOAT 2. / Shakefpeare [leather an An apple with a tough rind coat. Shakefp LE‘ATHERDRESSER. 2. /i [leather an drefler. He who dreffes leather; h { Prior Miltsi Let ufeful obfervations be at /eaff fome parto the fubjet of your converfation Watts There is a dith of lathereoats for you "Till their own dreams at length deceive them And oft sepeating they believe them Cay Saxon This word Wallis would per fuade us to write /¢, that it may b Erfe. Plalms iv. 2 Nor /eafings lewd affright the fwain he were a man, who fat as on horfeback. ~ Sidney, Even like a fawning greyhound in the /eafb My leafp unwillingly Trading free fhall thrive again is not worth the change. To let him flip at will Till a man can judge whether they be truths o no, his underftanding is but little improved: an thus men of much reading are greatly /earned, bu tifed artift can e a l e t f l f b Lords of the w5 orld h fe And that too, if the leflor pleaf¢, muft Enj)am o t w l heard a man t She in harveft us'd to leafe It is indifferent to the matter in hand, whic Locke way the Jearned thall determine of it Some by old words to fame have made pretence Greeks LE who manufa&ures hides for ufe |