1. lear - Noun
2. lear - Adjective
3. lear - Verb
4. Lear - Proper noun
To learn. See Lere, to learn.
Lore; lesson.
See Leer, a.
An annealing oven. See Leer, n.
Source: Webster's dictionaryGrant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. William Butler Yeats
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is. W. H. Auden
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. Peter Ustinov
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written. Noël Coward
Quhen the Play is best, it is best to lear. Scottish Proverb
Lear young, lear fair. Scottish Proverb