School (n.) A session of an institution of instruction.
School (n.) 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.
School (n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
School (n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
School (n.) 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.
School (n.) 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.
School (n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
Schooled (imp. & p. p.) of School
Schooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of School
School (v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
School (v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
Schoolbook (n.) A book used in schools for learning lessons.
Schoolboy (n.) A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
Schooldame (n.) A schoolmistress.
Schoolery (n.) Something taught; precepts; schooling.
Schoolfellow (n.) One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
Schoolgirl (n.) A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.
Schoolhouse (n.) A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
Schooling (n.) Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
Schooling (n.) Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling.
Schooling (n.) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
Schooling (a.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
Schoolma'am (n.) A schoolmistress.
Schoolmaid (n.) A schoolgirl.
Schoolmen (pl. ) of Schoolman
Schoolman (n.) One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
Schoolmaster (n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
Schoolmaster (n.) One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
Schoolmate (n.) A pupil who attends the same school as another.
Schoolmistress (n.) A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.
Schoolroom (n.) A room in which pupils are taught.
Schoolship (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.
School-teacher (n.) One who teaches or instructs a school.
Schoolward (adv.) Toward school.
Schooner (n.) Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Schooner (n.) A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.
Schorl (n.) Black tourmaline.
Schorlaceous (a.) Partaking of the nature and character of schorl; resembling schorl.
Schorlous (a.) Schorlaceous.
Schorly (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite.
Schottish (n.) Alt. of Schottische
Schottische (n.) A Scotch round dance in 2-4 time, similar to the polka, only slower; also, the music for such a dance; -- not to be confounded with the Ecossaise.
Schreibersite (n.) A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.
Schrode (n.) See Scrod.
Schwann's sheath () The neurilemma.
Schwann's white substance () The substance of the medullary sheath.
Schwanpan (n.) Chinese abacus.
Schweitzerkase (n.) Gruyere cheese.
Schwenkfelder (n.) Alt. of Schwenkfeldian
Schwenkfeldian (n.) A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ.
Sciaenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes which includes the meagre, the squeteague, and the kingfish.
Sciagraph (n.) An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.
Sciagraph (n.) A radiograph.
Sciagraphical (a.) Pertaining to sciagraphy.
Sciagraphy (n.) The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.
Sciagraphy (n.) Same as Sciagraph.
Sciamachy (n.) See Sciomachy.
Sciatheric (a.) Alt. of Sciatherical
Sciatherical (a.) Belonging to a sundial.
Sciatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.
Sciatic (n.) Sciatica.
Sciatica (n.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.
Sciatical (a.) Sciatic.
Sciatically (adv.) With, or by means of, sciatica.
Scibboleth (n.) Shibboleth.
Science (n.) Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.
Science (n.) Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.
Science (n.) Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science.
Science (n.) Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.
Science (n.) Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.
Science (v. t.) To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
Scient (a.) Knowing; skillful.
Scienter (adv.) Knowingly; willfully.
Sciential (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, science.
Scientific (a.) Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.
Scientific (a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.
Scientific (a.) Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.
Scientifical (a.) Scientific.
Scientifically (adv.) In a scientific manner; according to the rules or principles of science.
Scientist (n.) One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.
Scilicet (adv.) To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.
Scillain (n.) A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.
Scillitin (n.) A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances.
Scimiter (n.) Alt. of Scimitar
Scimitar (n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.
Scimitar (n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
Scincoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Scincidae, or skinks.
Scincoid (n.) A scincoidian.
Scincoidea (n. pl.) A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink.
Scincoidian (n.) Any one of numerous species of lizards of the family Scincidae or tribe Scincoidea. The tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.
Sciniph (n.) Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.
Scink (n.) A skink.
Scink (n.) A slunk calf.
Scintilla (n.) A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle.
Scintillant (a.) Emitting sparks, or fine igneous particles; sparkling.
Scintillated (imp. & p. p.) of Scintillate
Scintillating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scintillate
Scintillate (v. i.) To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.
Scintillate (v. i.) To sparkle, as the fixed stars.
Scintillation (n.) The act of scintillating.