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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…

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

ess; fastidious accuracy. That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England. Macaulay.

trict. -- District judge, one who presides over a district court. -- District school, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.]

pported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. -- Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. Burrill. -- Free ships…

To nominate for support at a public school or other institution . Lamb.

closure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.

The head master of a public school. [Scot.]

hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.

l, Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc. -- High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U.S.] -- School board, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school acco…