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Learned
(Learn"ed) a. 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 of learned length and thundering sound.

Goldsmith.

The learned, learned men; men of erudition; scholars.

— Learn"ed*ly, adv. Learn"ed*ness, n.

Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they.

Swift.

Learner
(Learn"er) n. One who learns; a scholar.

Learning
(Learn"ing), n. [AS. leornung.]

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

2. The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning.

Book learning. See under Book.

Syn. — Literature; erudition; lore; scholarship; science; letters. See Literature.

Leasable
(Leas"a*ble) a. [From 2d Lease.] Such as can be leased.

Lease
(Lease) v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.] To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] Dryden.

Lease
(Lease) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leased ; p. pr. & vb. n. Leasing.] [F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See Lax, and cf. Lesser.]

1. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; — sometimes with out.

There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives.

Addison.

2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.

Lease
(Lease) n. [Cf. OF. lais. See Lease, v. t.]

1. A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

2. The contract for such letting.

3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.

Our high-placed Macbeth
Shall live the lease of nature.

Shak.

Lease and release a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. Burrill. Warren's Blackstone.