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Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landsca…

A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or de…

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…

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.

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.