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; a thing out of place, or of no value. There are many subtile impertinences learned in schools. Watts.

Intended for young children; as, an infant school.

of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction. Hooker.

mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline. Schoolmasters will I keep within my house, Fit to instruct her youth. Shak.

Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive. "Invasive war." Hoole.

ancient Italy. -- Italic order (Arch.), the composite order. See Composite. -- Italic school, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were first promulgated. -- Italic version. See Itala.

om or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.

tion, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store. Like a pedant that keeps a school. Shak. Every one of them kept house by himself. Hayward.

A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garde…

One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n.

of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.

An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. [Obs.] Ascham.

One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.

One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke.

ons to their own use; as, the livery of the London tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of London. A Haberdasher and a Carpenter, A Webbe, a Dyer, and a Tapicer, And they…

A French lyceum, or secondary school supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university.

A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.

A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses. Chesterfield.

al work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries. [Written also Masorah, Massora, and Massorah.]

r one exercising similar authority. (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…