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A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.

A room in which pupils are taught.

A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.

Toward school. Chaucer.

In Ireland, a national school which has been built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and the trustees.

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

ademus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

ished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.

Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd. The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman. Milman.

he angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another." [Sportive] "A schoolboy, stammering out his Asses' Bridge." F. Harrison. -- To make an ass of one's self, to do or say something very foolish or absurd.

mity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.

A school founded at Rome by Hadrian.

To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.

The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. Swift.

s uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge.

The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys. Halliwell.

working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.