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A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos. Malcom.

of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. Buckle.

To give attention to as a teacher or judge. Thy matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. 2 Sam. xv. 3. I beseech your honor to hear me one single word. Shak.

A disciple of Hermogenes, and heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He ha

One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.

A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.

the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image. Dan. iii. 7. Language master, a teacher of languages.[Obs.]

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.

ollards all know the Wyclifities are meant, so called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers in Germany. Fuller.

hority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being.…

Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits. Those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth. Prior.

A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language. [India]

Disposed to change; inclined to novelties; given to new theories or fashions. "Newfangled teachers." 1 Tim. vi. (heading). "Newfangled men." Latimer.

A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.

Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. Shak.

g faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; teachery. The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. Macaulay. His perfidy to this sacred engagement. DeQuincey.

other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. -- n.

who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.

A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.

ors should be well principled. L'Estrange. Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired. Locke.