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<hw>Leap"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See 1st <er>Leap</er>.]</ety> <def>A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.</def>

<h1>Leapfrog</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Leap"frog`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.</def>

<h1>Leapful</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Leap"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See 1st <er>Leap</er>.]</ety> <def>A basketful.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Leaping</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Leap"ing</hw>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <def>from <er>Leap</er>, to jump.</def>

<cs><col>Leaping house</col>, <cd>a brothel. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Shak</i>.</cd> -- <col>Leaping pole</col>, <cd>a pole used in some games of leaping.</cd> -- <col>Leaping spider</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a jumping spider; one of the Saltigrad\'91.</cd></cs>

<h1>Leapingly</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Leap"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>By leaps.</def>

<h1>Leap year</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Leap" year`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which <i>leaps</i> over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See <er>Bissextile</er>.</def>

<note>&hand; Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the full centuries, which, to be leap years, must be divisible by 400 without a remainder. If not so divisible they are common years. 1900, therefore, is not a leap year.</note>

<h1>Lear</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Lear</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To learn. See <er>Lere</er>, to learn.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Lear</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Lear</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Lore; lesson.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Lear</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Lear</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>See <er>Leer</er>, <tt>a.</tt></def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Lear</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Lear</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An annealing oven. See <er>Leer</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<h1>Learn</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Learn</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Learned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>, or <er>Learnt</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Learning</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>lernen</ets>, <ets>leornen</ets>, AS. <ets>leornian</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>lin\'d3n</ets>, for <ets>lirn\'d3n</ets>, OHG. <ets>lirn\'c7n</ets>, <ets>lern\'c7n</ets>, G. <ets>lernen</ets>, fr. the root of AS. <ets>l<?/ran</ets> to teach, OS. <ets>l\'c7rian</ets>, OHG.<ets>l\'c7ran</ets>, G. <ets>lehren</ets>, Goth. <ets>laisjan</ets>, also Goth <ets>lais</ets> I know, <ets>leis</ets> acquainted (in comp.); all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf. AS. <ets>leoran</ets> to go . Cf. <er>Last</er> a mold of the foot, <er>lore</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; <as>as, to <ex>learn</ex> the way; to <ex>learn</ex> a lesson; to <ex>learn</ex> dancing; to <ex>learn</ex> to skate; to <ex>learn</ex> the violin; to <ex>learn</ex> the truth about something.</as></def> "<i>Learn</i> to do well."

<i>Is. i. 17.</i>

<blockquote>Now <b>learn</b> a parable of the fig tree. <i>Matt. xxiv. 32.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To communicate knowledge to; to teach.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>