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Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.

A schoolmistress. [Colloq.U.S.]

A schoolgirl. Shak.

One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.

The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his pr…

A pupil who attends the same school as another.

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.

ll, sharp-built vessel, with two topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vesels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vesels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated th…

Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality. Bib. Sacra.

Serfage.

A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading. [Colloq.]

One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.

A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.

A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. Dryden.

Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus);- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

To pack, as staves, in a shook.