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88. A schoolman. school-authort (sköl'a"thor), n. Book of Common Prayer, Articles of Religion, xiii. school-board (sköl'bōrd), n. A local board of education or school-committee; specifically, in Great Britain, a body of managers, elected by the ratepayers, male and female, in a town or parish, to provide adequate means of instruc- tion for every child in the district, with the power of compelling the attendance of the chil- dren at school, unle their education is satis- factorily provided for otherwise. school-book (sköl'bük), n. A book used in schools. school-boy (sköl'boi), n. A boy belonging to or attending a school. Then the whining school - boy , with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 145. school-bred (sköl'bred), a. Educated in a school. That, though school - bred , the boy be virtuous still. Cowper , Tirocinium, 1. 840. school-clerkt (sköl'klėrk), n. [Early mod. E. also schole - clark ; school1 + clerk.] One who is versed in the learning of schools. The greatest schole clarks are not alwayes the wisest men. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S.), i. 3. school-committee (sköl'ko-mit"ē), n. A com- mittee charged with the supervision of the schools of a town or district. schoolcraft (sköl'kraft), n . Learning. He has met his parallel in wit and schoolcraft . B. Jonson, New Inn, ii. 2. school-dame (sköldām), n . A female teacher school-days (sköl'dāz), n. pl . The time of life during which children attend school; time pa ed at school. Is it all forgot? Their author was Spenerus, from whom they learnt to of a school; a schoolmistre . despise all ecclesiastical polity, all school theology, all forms and ceremonies. Chambers's Cyc . (1738), art. Pietists. schooll (sköl), v . t . [ IMG:content-0294.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0295.png:[blocks in formation]