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|School ||n||Loan word from Greek (skole) US Canada - an institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.. 2. an educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university). 3. within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area. 3. the followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought. 4. the time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution
 
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|School ||vb||To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.) 2. to defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson. 3. to control, or compose, one's expression.
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|School ||phr||"School of Hard Knocks" - the source of an education, consisting of a real-world experience.
 
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Old English n English
Scab n O.E sceabb?: roughness of skin. A hard, dry skin or crust formed on the surface of a healing wound or sore. 2. A contagious disease among sheep, resembling mange, scabies. 3. a bacterial disease among plants with warty growths forming on the stems. 4. a workman who does not belong to or will not join a labour union; a strikebreaker; scabbing.
Scabbiness n The property of being scabby; of having or being covered with scabs.
Scab-like n Resembling a scab (incrustation) or some aspect of one.
Scabby adj Affected with scabs; full of scabs. 2. diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
Scabwort n Old name for the plant: "Scabiosa major." Other names include: Horse-heal and Inula helenium.
Scat n Treasure, money. 2. tax, tribute, impost.
Scathe n O.E sceathan ?: One who works harm, a malefactor, wretch, fiend, 2. hurt, harm, damage, physical hurt. 3. Something which wrought injury and harm, supposedly produced from witchcraft. 4. an injury, damage or loss from which legal compensation is claimed; also cost or expenses incurred by the claiming.
Scathe vb To injure or destroy by fire, lightning or similar thing. 2. to scorch, sear, wither.
Scathing adj Harmful, dangerous, injurious, damaging, wounding, hurtful, withering, searing. 2. subject to pecuniary loss. 3. with invective sharp, cutting, searing, withering, damaging.
Scathe-deed n A harmful action or hurtful deed.
Scathe-fire n A conflagration, inferno, holocaust.
Scatheless adj Without scathing, not harmful.
Scathel adj Injurious, harmful, dangerous.
Scathe-taking n To engage in, indulge in, or inflict in a dangerous or harmful act, injury upon another.
Sceat n A coin or denomination of money, see scat
Schelchene n A female servant.
School n Loan word from Greek (skole) US Canada - an institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.. 2. an educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university). 3. within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area. 3. the followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought. 4. the time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution
School vb To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.) 2. to defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson. 3. to control, or compose, one's expression.
School phr "School of Hard Knocks" - the source of an education, consisting of a real-world experience.
School phr "School of Thought" - an opinion, subscribed to by some connected or arvbitrary groups.
Schoolbook n A textbook, used or prepared for use in school.
Schoolbookish adj Of a book, pedantic, dry.
Schoolchild n A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
Schoolday n A day which the public schools are open, usually synonym with week days during the school year.
Schooldays n The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly primary school (as opposed to high school or college days). 2. one's youth.
Schoolfellow n One who attends the same school.
Schoolfriend n A friend at one's school.
Schoolgoer n One who attends school.
Schoolgoing adj Attending school.
Schoolhouse n A building, housing a school, especially a small or single-room school
Schooling n Training or instruction. 2. institutional education, attendance at school.
Schoolish adj Of or pertaining to school; scholastic. 2. characteristic of school rather than real life; pedantic, pedagogical
Schoolroom n A classroom, a room in a school used for instruction.
Schoolrun n Increased traffic due to the number of parents taking or collecting their children to and from school by car.
Schoolship n A vessel used for the training and education of sailors. 2. a vessel used as a reformatory.
School teacher n
School-teacherish adj
School-time n
Schoolward adj Which leads back to school.
Schoolward adv Towards school.
Schoolwear n Clothes designed to be worn at school.
Schule vb To look obliquely.
Scinn (skin) n ????Of men's clothing, from skin (n.) + tight (adj.).skin - ca.1200, "animal hide" (usually dressed and tanned), from Old Norse skinn "animal hide, fur," from Proto-Germanic *skintha- (cognates: Old English scinn (rare), Old High German scinten, German schinden "to flay, skin;" German dialectal schind "skin of a fruit," Flemish schinde "bark"), from PIE *sken- "to cut off"
Scop n ????A poet, minstrel.
Score vb To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash 2. especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally. 3. to mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. 4. to engrave, as upon a shield. 5. to make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game. 6. to write down in proper order and arrangement; as to score an overture for an orchestra 7. to mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
Score n A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally, mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. 9. an account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence,indebtedness. 2. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. 3. the number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number. 4. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. 5. A weight of twenty pounds. 6. The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket. 7. A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
Scoreboard n
Scorebook n
Score box n
Score-keeper n
Score-keeping n
adv
Scoreline n
Score-off n
Scorer n
Scoresheet n
Score string n
Score writer n
Scot n One of the ancient Gaelic-speaking people, first known to history as inhabitants of Ireland. 2. a native of Scotland.
Scot n A payment or contribution, "reckoning" esp. a payment for entertainment or one's share of such payment; chiefly in the phrases: (lit & fig.) " to pay for one's scot."
Scot vb To lay a person or property under contribution of scot. 2. to share, to participate, assess.
Scot-ale n An "ale" or festival at which ale was drunk at the invitation of the lord of the manor or of a forester or other bailiff, for which ale as a forced contribution was levied.
Scot-free adj Exempt from taxes, imposts, charges, etc.
Scot-thede n People of the Scots; scot-lede: people or language of the Scots.
Scottish adj Of or belonging to Scotland, especially of persons of scottish nationality, birth or descent.
Scrape vb ? to make level, smooth or clean or do damage to, by rubbing, pushing, a hard edge over a surface; scrape off, erase, scrape over, scrape away and scrape out by scraping. 2. touching or almost touching. 3. get something moved by making a rough sound. 4. to make use of money with great care: scrape together or get bit by bit. 5. just succeed in achieving your aim or goal in scraping through.
Scrat n Hermaphrodite.
Scree vb To glide.
Screpe vb To erase, scratch off; see "Scrape."
Scrithe vb OE: to go, pass, creep, wander. 2. to glide, fall or lapse. 3. to urge, entreat.
Scrithing pp Going, passing, gliding, wandering, roving, fleeting
Scrithel n Roving, wander, glide, fleetness.
Scuff n
Scuffy adj
Scug n Originally shadow, the shade, shelter afforded by a rock, tree, bush or like; hence a shelter. 2. fig, a cloak, pretence, outward show. 2. a squirrel: "a shadow tail." NB: also spelt "skug"
Scug vb To take shelter or skug. 2. to shade, shelter, screen, protect. 3. to take cover, shelter. 4. to hide, conceal oneself.
Scuggy adj Shady, gloomy, skuggish, scuggish
Scythe n Long curved blade with long curved hand-bit worked with the hands to cut grass, crops, etc.
Scythe-like adj