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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.

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.

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…