lore
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1. lore - Noun
2. lore - Verb
Meaning
The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.
The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
Lost.
That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.
That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel.
Workmanship.
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Give all thou canst high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more.
But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Bot for men sein, and soth it is, That who that al of wisdom writ It dulleth ofte a mannes wit To him that schal it aldai rede, For thilke cause, if that ye rede, I wolde go the middel weie And wryte a bok betwen the tweie, Somwhat of lust, somewhat of lore.