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In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.

s of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.

depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.

Divine instruction; revelation.

ers for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport, R.I.

usury was all his trade. Spenser. The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. Milton. I will instruct thee in my trade. Shak.

ectly on the side. Totten. -- To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6. The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. Tillotson.…

One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.

Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth. Shak. In troth, thou art able to instruct gray hairs. Addison.

Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.

To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct. Their sons are well tutored by you. Shak.

A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress. E. Moore.

To teach; to instruct. I . . . shall tutorize him some day. J. H. Newman.

An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may e…

The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.

ing blow, now strikes again. Daniel. The pointed javelin warded off his rage. Addison. It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections. I. Watts.

of continual supply. Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it; but the instruction of fools is folly. Prov. xvi. 22.

ink, usually finished with a smooth surface, and sized. -- Writing school, a school for instruction in penmanship. -- Writing table, a table fitted or used for writing upon.