Lesson

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

II. Lesson ·noun An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

III. Lesson ·vt To Teach; to Instruct.

IV. Lesson ·noun A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.

V. Lesson ·noun Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

VI. Lesson ·noun That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.