Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LEARN'ING, n. [lern'ing.]

1. The knowledge of principles or facts received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition literature; science. The Scaligers were men of great learning. [This is the proper tense of the word.]
2. Knowledge acquired by experience, experiment or observation.
3. Skill in any thing good or bad. – Hooker.