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or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals. If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others should practice them. South.

, willing to receive instruction; docile. We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God. I. Watts.

Willingness to be taught.

One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. Ure.

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

The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

Not teachable. [R.] Shelley.

To teach beforehand. [Obs.]

To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.

One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.

forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught. Experience will unteach us. Sir T. Browne. One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. Byron.

A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading. [Obs.]

One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Wood.

here the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

s; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. Lardner.

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.

d critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.