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One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.

Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations. More capable to discourse of battles than to give them. Motley.

The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.

One who educates; an instructor. [Obs.] Walker.

See Instructor.

An instructor. [Obs.] Gower.

Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.

ommands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.

A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. Shak. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. L'Estrange.

The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.

To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.

A private instructor.

ormerly worn by women when riding. (b) A kind of cloak with a hood. -- Riding master, an instructor in horsemanship. -- Riding rhyme (Pros.), the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. Dr. Guest. -- Riding school, a school or plac…

Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class. "He taught his disciples." Mark ix. 31. The village master taught his little school. Goldsmith.

One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.

One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.