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[Eng. school (1), s.; -le .] Destitute of a school or schools; untaught. school-maid, s. [Eng. school (1), s., and maid. ] A girl at school; a school-girl. "As schoolmaids change their names By vain though apt affection." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , 1. 4. schoôl-măn, s. [Eng. school (1), s., and man.] One of the schoolmen (q. v.). school-mas-ter, * schoole-mais-ter, s. [Eng. school, and master.] 1. A man who presides over and teaches in a school; a teacher, instructor, or preceptor in a school. "He [the father] may also delegate part of his parental authority, during his life, to the tutor or schoolmaster of his child."-Black stone: Comment . , bk. i., ch. 16. or disci 2. One who or that which schools, trains, or plines. "The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ."- Galatians iii. 24. 3. A horse well skilled in jumping ridden beside another to train him for steeple-chasing. ( Racing slang.) The schoolmaster abroad: A phrase used by Lord Brougham (in a speech Jan. 29, 1828) to ex pre the general diffusion of education, and of intelligence arising therefrom. "Let the soldier be abroad, if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad the schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array." +schoôl-mas-ter-ing, s. [Eng. schoolmaster ; -ing.] The act, art, or occupation of keeping school; teaching. "He could never burst the shell of expert schoolmaster ing." Carlyle: Reminiscences (ed. Froude), i. 107. *school-mas-těr-lý, a . [Eng. schoolmaster ; -ly .] Befitting a schoolmaster dealing with his pupils; hence, dealing with petty details. "The field for such schoolmasterly legislation is bound le ."- Saturday Review , June 2, 1883, p. 687.