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One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.

A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.

or Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.

A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach." Longfellow.

Adultery. [Obs.]

r rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals. If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others should practice them. South.

willing to receive instruction; docile. We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God. I. Watts.

Willingness to be taught.

One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. Ure.

One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.

The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

Not teachable. [R.] Shelley.

A traitor; a cheat. [Obs.] Treacher and coward both. Beau. & Fl.

Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate. Cowper.

Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

A traitor. [Obs.] "Treachour full of false despite." Spenser.

Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. Burke. -- Un`im*peach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`im*peach"a*bly, adv.

To undo or overthrow by preaching. [R.] De Foe.

forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what 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.

In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.