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In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupil…

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness. Tennyson.

A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.

To choose again.

The male of the European bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]

The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.

A kind of hood for a hawk.

onsidered collectively. It was supposed he felt no call to anu expedition that might sainthood. Sir W. Scott.

A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure. S. W. Williams.

A kind of pad worn on the leg under the boot. [Obs.] Nares.

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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

A book used in schools for learning lessons.

A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

A schoolmistress.

Something taught; precepts; schooling. [Obs.] penser.

One bred at the same school; an associate in school.

A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.

A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.