SCHIST
SCHIST. [See Shist.]
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SCHIST. [See Shist.]
SCHOL'AR, noun [Low Latin scholaris, from schola, a school; Gr. leisure, a school. See School.]1. One who learns of a teacher; one who is under the tuition of a preceptor; a pup...
SCHOL'AR-LIKE, adjective Like a scholar; becoming a scholar.
SCHOLAR'ITY, noun Scholarship. [Not used.]
SCHOL'ARSHIP, noun1. Learning; attainments in science or literature; as a man of great scholarship2. Literary education; as any other house of scholarship [Unusual.]3. Exhibitio...
SCHOLAS'TIC,SCHOLAS'TICAL, adjective [Latin scholasticus.]1. Pertaining to a scholar, to a school or to schools; as scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.2. Scholar-l...
SCHOLAS'TICAL, a. [L. scholasticus.]1. Pertaining to a scholar, to a school or to schools; as scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.2. Scholar-like; becoming a schola...
SCHOLAS'TICALLY, adverb In the manner of schools; according to the niceties or method of the schools.
SCHOLAS'TICISM, noun The method or subtilties of the schools.The spirit of the old scholasticism which spurned laborious investigation and slow induction -
SCHO'LIAST, noun [Gr. See scholium.]A commentator or annotator; one who writes notes upon the works of another for illustrating his writings.
SCHO'LIAZE, verb intransitive To write notes on an author's works. [Not used.]
SCHO'LICAL, adjective Scholastic. [Not in use.]
SCHO'LIUM, nounplural scholia or scholiums. [Latin scholion; Gr. from leisure, lucubration.]In mathematics, a remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration.
SCHO'LY, noun A scholium. [Not in use.]SCHO'LY, verb intransitive To write comments. [Not in use.]
SCHOOL, noun [Latin schola; Gr. leisure, vacation from business, lucubration at leisure, a place where leisure is enjoyed, a school The adverb signifies at ease, leisurely, slow...
SCHOOL'-FELLOW, noun [See Fellow.] One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
SCHOOL'-HOUSE, noun [See House.] A house appropriated for the use of schools, or for instruction; but applied only to building for subordinate schools, not to colleges. In Conne...
SCHOOL'ERY, noun Something taught; precepts. [Not used.]
SCHOOL'ING, participle present tense Instructing; teaching; reproving.SCHOOL'ING, noun1. Instruction in school; tuition.2. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to ...
SCHOOL'MAID, noun [See Maid.] A girl at school.
SCHOOL'MAN, noun [See Man.]1. A man versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtil art.2. A writer of scholastic...
SCHOOL'MASTER, noun [See Master].1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor or preceptor of a school. [Applied now only or chiefly to the teachers ...
SCHOOL'MISTRESS, noun [See Mistress.] A woman who governs and teaches a school.
SCHOON'ER, noun A vessel with two masts, whose main-sail and fore- sail are suspended by gaffs, like a sloop's main-sail, and stretched below by booms.
SCHORL. [See Shorl.]
SCHWARE, noun A copper coin and money of account in Bremen, value one fifth of a groat, and 72 groats make a thaler, [dollar.]
SCIAGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to sciagraphy.