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{ or . (Painting) 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 landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. 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 department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12; as, he goes to the neighborhood highschool.
Syn. -- senior high school, senior high, high, high school. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Receiving or having received formal education, especially primary or secondary education, at home rather than in a school. The instruction at home may be accomplished by parents or by professionals who come to the home; as, home-schooled students often get higher test scores than those educated in schools. [ PJC ]

pos>n. The practise of providing formal education, especially primary or secondary education, at home rather than in a school. [ PJC ]

n. A school having grades at a level between the lower primary grades and the upper secondary grades, being variously grades 4 through 6, or grades 7 through 9, etc. [ PJC ]

adj. not attending school and therefore free to work; as, opportunities for out-of-school youth. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (a) 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 pupils for the universities. Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester are of this class. (b) In the United States, a free primary, grammar, or high school maintained by the local government. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. scole, AS. sc&unr_;lu, L. schola, Gr. &unr_; leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as &unr_;, the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See Scheme. ] 1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Acts xix. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. [ 1913 Webster ]

As he sat in the school at his primer. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A session of an institution of instruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. [ 1913 Webster ]

What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences? Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. [ 1913 Webster ]

His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. A. S. Hardy. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boarding school,
Common school,
District school,
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 accommodation for all children in their district. --
School committee,
School board, an elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible for control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [ U. S. ] --
School days, the period in which youth are sent to school. --
School district, a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [ U.S. ] --
Sunday school, or
Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For shoal a crowd; prob. confused with school for learning. ] A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Schooled p. pr. & vb. n. Schooling. ] 1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. [ 1913 Webster ]

He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. [ 1913 Webster ]

It now remains for you to school your child,
And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A book used in schools for learning lessons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A boy belonging to, or attending, a school. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A schoolmistress. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something taught; precepts; schooling. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One bred at the same school; an associate in school. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A girl belonging to, or attending, a school. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See School a shoal. ] (Zool.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Schooling species like the herring and menhaden. G. B. Goode. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A schoolmistress. [ Colloq.U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A schoolgirl. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Schoolmen One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and abstract speculation. They were so called because they taught in the mediaeval universities and schools of divinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ. Gal. iii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pupil who attends the same school as another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A room in which pupils are taught. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n. [1913 Webster]

adv. Toward school. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]