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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 |
|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. |
+ | |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. |
|School ||phr||"School of Hard Knocks" - the source of an education, consisting of a real-world experience. |
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|Schooling ||n||Training or instruction. 2. institutional education, attendance at school. |
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|Schoolroom ||n||A classroom, a room in a school used for instruction. |
|Schoolroom ||n||A classroom, a room in a school used for instruction. |
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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 | |
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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 |