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Lear

lɪr
WordNet
Scene from the play King Lear with, among others, protagonists Lear, Kent and Gloucester during a storm in which lightning bolts shoot through the air.
Scene from the play King Lear with, among others, protagonists Lear, Kent and Gloucester during a storm in which lightning bolts shoot through the air.
  1. (n) Lear
    the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
  2. (n) Lear
    British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888)
Illustrations
On display is deed I, scene 1 with a company for King Lear.
On display is deed I, scene 1 with a company for King Lear.
King Lear is depicted holding Cordelia's body in his hands.
King Lear is depicted holding Cordelia's body in his hands.
Scene from Shakespeare's King Lear. Cordelia (actress Susannah Maria Cibber) is outside in the storm. Next to her a woman who accompanies her. Behind them three men and a dog. One of the men has straw in his hat and shoes.
Scene from Shakespeare's King Lear. Cordelia (actress Susannah Maria Cibber) is outside in the storm. Next to her a woman who accompanies her. Behind them three men and a dog. One of the men has straw in his hat and shoes.
Porcelain dish with a round wall, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, brown, black and gold. In the center the coat of arms of the Woodford and Lear families. The coat of arms is divided into two panels with on the left Woodford with a lion head (reversed) in a French lily against a black background; right Lear with three unicorns and a tilt band against a blue background. The helmet mark is a stylized flower flanked by two claws. The cover in brown with leaf tendrils with garlands on the underside. A spearhead border around the weapon. On the wall eight valuables and lucky symbols (music stone, shell, scrolls, parasol, fan, book, horns); the inner edge with a band with curling. On the outer edge a decorative band and on the wall four flower sprays. Old label on the bottom with 'Woodford'. Coat of arms porcelain with enamel colors.
Dish with the arms of the Woodford and Lear families
Photo reproduction of a painting, depicting a portrait of Ellen Terry as Cordelia and Henry Irving as King Lear in the play King Lear
Photo reproduction of a print after a painting, depicting King Lear with Kent and Cordelia
Photo reproduction of a print after a painting, depicting King Lear in the storm
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Lear
    Lore; lesson.
  2. Lear
    To learn. See Lere, to learn.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. Lear
    To teach; instruct; inform.
  2. Lear
    To learn.
  3. Lear
    To teach.
  4. (n) Lear
    Learning; lore; a lesson.
  5. Lear
    See leer.
  6. (n) Lear
    See leer.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Lear
    lēr (Spens.) to learn
  2. (n) Lear
    that which is learned, a lesson:
  3. (n) Lear
    (Scot.) learning
Usage in the news

' Glee ' producer Ryan Murphy to honor Norman Lear. timesleader.com

Raye Birk has the title role in Park Square Theatre's production of "King Lear". twincities.com

Park Square Theatre's production of "King Lear" wants to make you an offer you can't refuse. twincities.com

NEW YORK (AP) -- " King Lear " may be Shakespeare's greatest work, but, let's face it, it's also grindingly grim. crescent-news.com

Chook Sabtain, Jenny Jules, Jonathan Pryce, Zoe Waites and Richard Hope in " King Lear ". variety.com

New Players Theater's King Lear . columbusalive.com

This year they will be performing King Lear . kingfm.com

Too often the role of King Lear is played as an over-the-top lunatic trying to outshout the storm that rages around him literally and figuratively. blog.timesunion.com

OXFORD TOWN – Veteran thespian Peter Pinow (pictured on the OT cover) takes the lead role as King Lear in Shakespeare's "darkest tradegy" this weekend at the Ford Center. oxfordeagle.com

Presented by the Oxford Shakespeare Festival, curtains will rise on " King Lear " Saturday, June 3. oxfordeagle.com

CNY Shakespeare's King Lear features powerful performances. blog.syracuse.com

Classic's ' King Lear . blog.mysanantonio.com

Dan Yount, who plays Gloucester, rehearses a scene for Classic Theatre's staging of " King Lear ". blog.mysanantonio.com

New Moon Theatre Company Presents King Lear at TheatreWorks. knofm.org

NEW YORK—Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy is paying tribute at the International Emmy Awards to television legends Norman Lear and Alan Alda, whose socially-conscious shows in the '70s changed the face of television. elpasotimes.com

Usage in scientific papers

The experimental programs - carried out in the past mostly at the former LEAR facility and at present at the AD facility at CERN - would bene fit from intense future sources of low energy p’s.
Low Energy Antiproton Experiments -- A Review

After moderation of a p beam from LEAR at CERN, p’s could be trapped in a cylindrical Penning trap for the first time in 1986 .
Low Energy Antiproton Experiments -- A Review

It has been shown at the LEAR facility at CERN that antiprotonic x-rays from atoms in which a p has been captured can be utilized to obtain information on the neutron mean square radii of nuclei (see Fig. 17) .
Low Energy Antiproton Experiments -- A Review

We have de fined an inference algorithme DEES designed to lear n rational stochastic languages which strictly contains the class of stochastic languages computable by PA (or HMM).
Learning rational stochastic languages

The BABAR measurement of this ratio is shown in fig. 2 (right) for six different mass bins of Mp ¯p ; a previous LEAR measurement12 is in disagreement with BABAR.
Measurement of the e+e- Multihadronic Cross Sections below 4.5 GeV with BaBar

Usage in literature

But he is old, as Lear is old; he is called the father of his kingdom. "The Growth of English Drama" by Arnold Wynne

An ounce o' wit is worth a pound o' lear. "The Proverbs of Scotland" by Alexander Hislop

Is one that watches himself a mischief, and keeps a lear eye still, for fear it should escape him. "Microcosmography" by John Earle

At a time not far distant "Lear" was my favourite among Shakespeare's plays. "Fibble, D. D." by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

Enter Lear and the fool. "Tolstoy on Shakespeare" by Leo Tolstoy

He thought of old Lear moaning over dead Cordelia. "The Art of Disappearing" by John Talbot Smith

Lear, Tobias, describes Henry's control of Virginia politics in 1788, 353. "Patrick Henry" by Moses Coit Tyler

What can there be in common between Lear and Juliet? "The Strollers" by Frederic S. Isham

Macready, you acknowledge, is perhaps your superior in such parts as Lear and Hamlet; but did he ever paint a single side-scene in his life? "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846" by Various

The fate of Lear finds a parallel in that of {186} Gloucester in the underplot. "An Introduction to Shakespeare" by H. N. MacCracken

Usage in poetry
Oh, rending the veil asunder,
He fled to mingle again
With the dread Orestean thunder,
The Lear of the driven rain!
"The Poet's Town" by John Gneisenau Neihardt
There's Sandy, he's sae fou o' lear,
To talk wi' him is vain;
For gin we a' should say 'twas fair,
He'd prove that it did rain.
"I’m Tibby Fowler O’ The Glen" by Susanna Blamire Author object (631)
Gae her meat -- and claise -- and siller;
Gae her bairnies wark and lear;
Lastly, gae this cot-house till her,
Wi' four sterling pounds a year.'
"The Waes O' War : Or The Upshot Of The History O' Will And Jean. In Four Parts" by Hector MacNeill
Grant 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;
"An Acre Of Grass" by William Butler Yeats Author object (694)
''Twas then my native strains ye lear'd,
For passion spake while fancy cheer'd;
And while wi' flaunting airs ye flar'd
And thought to shine;
But Nature -- judging nature sneer'd And ca'd it -- fine!
"The Scottish Muse" by Hector MacNeill
He's gane! -- he's gane! -- ah! welladay!
The spirit's flown that warm'd the clay!
The light has fled that cheer'd the way
Through lear's mirk page;
Fir'd the young breast wi' fancy's ray,
And charm'd the sage!
"On The Death Of David Doig, LL. D. Master Of The Grammar School, Stirling" by Hector MacNeill