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A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.

mth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke.

A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak.

A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

ctions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. "The true peripatetic school." Howell.

l in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school. Locke.

One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century. Addis & Arnold.

Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.

A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.

To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing. Plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.

To be a truant from (school). [Scot.]

Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.

rs; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. Thackeray. -- Pom"ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp"ous*ness, n.

e Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples; hence, sometimes used as equivalent to the school of the Stoics. It was called "h poiki`lh stoa`. [See Poicile.]

One 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.

n boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.

ion; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.