lear

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See also: Lear, le-ar, and léar

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (doctrine, teaching, lore), from Old English lār (lore). More at lore.

Noun

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lear (countable and uncountable, plural lears)

  1. (now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.
  2. (now Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      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 [...].
    • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 3, page 100:
      '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.'
    • 1898, Francis James Child, editor, Lord William, or Lord Lundy, Child's Ballads:
      They dressed up in maids' array,
      And passd for sisters fair;
      With ae consent gaed ower the sea,
      For to seek after lear.

Etymology 2

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From Middle English learen, leren (to learn", also "to teach). Doublet of learn (Etymology 2).

Verb

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lear (third-person singular simple present lears, present participle learing, simple past and past participle leared)

  1. (transitive, archaic and Scotland) To teach.
  2. (intransitive, archaic) To learn.

Etymology 3

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See lehr.

Noun

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lear (plural lears)

  1. Alternative form of lehr

Anagrams

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Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese liar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately from Latin ligāre, present active infinitive of ligō. Compare Spanish liar.

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Verb

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lear (first-person singular present leo, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado)
lear (first-person singular present leio, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (transitive) to wrap, coil
    Synonym: envurullar
  2. (transitive) to link
    Synonym: ligar
  3. (transitive) to entangle
    Synonyms: enlear, enredar
  4. (transitive) to roll (a cigarette)
  5. (pronominal) to wrestle, fight
    Synonyms: enlear, loitar, rifar, punar, barallar, desortir

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish ler, from Proto-Celtic *liros. Cognate with Welsh llŷr.

Noun

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lear m (genitive singular lir)

  1. (literary or archaic, except in phrases) sea, ocean
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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lear m (genitive singular lear, nominative plural learanna)

  1. (mental) defect
    lear air.
    He's wrong in the head, he's touched.

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Volapük

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Noun

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lear (nominative plural lears)

  1. olive tree

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Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English lere, from Old English *lǣre, gelǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *lāʀi, *lāʀī.

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Adjective

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lear

  1. empty
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:
      At ye mye ne'er be wooveless ta vill a lear jock an cooan.
      That you may never be unprovided to fill an empty jack and can.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52