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human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul. Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self. Sir W. Hamilton.

A fossil cephalopod beak.

The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.

A salt of saccholactactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate. [Obs.] See Mucate.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic. [Obs.]

Saccholatic. [Obs.]

The scapholunar bone. Scapholunar bone, a bone formed by the coalescence of the scaphoid and lunar in the carpus of carnivora.

he tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student. I am no breeching scholar in the schools. Shak.

Scholarship. [Obs.] . Jonson.

Scholarly. Bacon.

Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv.

The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope.

Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. Sir K. Digby.

Scholastic.

In a scholastic manner.

The method or subtitles the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.

See Scholium.

A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits. Swift.

To write scholia. [Obs.] Milton.