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countable and uncountable, plural lears
(now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson. examples
(now Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine. quotations 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 [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
'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.'
1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 3, page 100
They dressed up in maids' array,And passd for sisters fair;With ae consent gaed ower the sea,For to seek after lear.
1898, Francis James Child, editor, Lord William, or Lord Lundy, Child's Ballads
third-person singular simple present lears, present participle learing, simple past and past participle leared
(transitive, archaic and Scotland) To teach.
(intransitive, archaic) To learn. quotations
He hath take on him many a great emprise, / Which were full hard for any that is here / To bring about, but they of him it lear.
14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
plural lears
Alternative form of lehr examples