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week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Fuller.

time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.

n; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school. And wears upon hisbaby brow the round And top of sovereignty. Shak.

es shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction. -- Training college. See Normal school, under Normal, a. -- Training day, a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. [U. S.] -- Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.

rified; transformation. [Colloq.] Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strai…

One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.

One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Dryden. I have a truant been to chivalry. Shak. To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave. Sir T. Browne

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

A building used as a school of gymnastics.

Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.

One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also Ubiquitist, Ubiquitary.

member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.

he condition of being united; quality of the unique; unification. Not unity, but what the schoolmen call unicity. De Quincey. The unicity we strive not to express, for that is impossible, but to designate by the nearest analogy. Coleridge.

t has been taught. Experience will unteach us. Sir T. Browne. One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. Byron.

An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

time of intermission; vacation. Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities. Milton. No interim, not a minute's vacancy. Shak. Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. Dryden.

One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder.

he diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc.; as, a veterinary writer or school.

ormerly used of either sex, now only of a woman. Barrow. She was a vixen when she went to school. Shak.