<B>school-leaving, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a leaving or quitting of school before completion of the course of study. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolless">
<B>schoolless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without a school; deprived of a school or schooling. <BR> <I>Ex. It thus appeared that Little Rock's high-school students might as well settle down to a long schoolless winter (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmaam">
<B>schoolma'am, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal or Dialect.) a woman teacher; schoolmistress. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmaid">
<B>schoolmaid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a schoolgirl. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolman">
<B>schoolman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a man engaged in teaching or in managing a school. <DD><B> 2. </B>Also, <B>Schoolman.</B> a teacher in a university of the Middle Ages; medieval theologian. <DD><B> 3. </B>an expert in traditional learning, formal logic, and the like. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmarm">
<B>schoolmarm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal or Dialect.) a woman teacher; schoolmistress. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmarmish">
<B>schoolmarmish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) like or characteristic of a schoolmarm. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmaster">
<B>schoolmaster, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a man who teaches in a school, or is its principal. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any person or thing that teaches or disciplines. <DD><B> 3. </B>a snapper of the West Indies and adjacent waters. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to supervise or instruct as a schoolmaster. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be a schoolmaster. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmastering">
<B>schoolmastering, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the occupation or profession of a schoolmaster. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmasterish">
<B>schoolmasterish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like or characteristic of a schoolmaster. <BR> <I>Ex. schoolmasterish jokes.</I> adv. <B>schoolmasterishly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmasterly">
<B>schoolmasterly, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like or characteristic of a schoolmaster. <BR> <I>Ex. schoolmasterly tones.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmate">
<B>schoolmate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a companion at school. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolmistress">
<B>schoolmistress, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman who teaches in a school, or is its principal. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolroom">
<B>schoolroom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a room in which pupils are taught. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolsection">
<B>school section,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Canadian.) a section of government land given to a local government by the federal government for the support of public schools. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolship">
<B>schoolship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a seagoing vessel used as a school for practical instruction in seamanship. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolteacher">
<B>schoolteacher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who teaches in a school. (SYN) instructor. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolteacherish">
<B>schoolteacherish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like or characteristic of a schoolteacher. <BR> <I>Ex. Her hair is short, gray, curly, and parted in the middle, giving her a slightly schoolteacherish look, which is often intensified by a pair of rimless spectacles (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="schoolteacherly">
<B>schoolteacherly, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like or characteristic of a schoolteacher. <BR> <I>Ex. He gave us ... a thoughtful, schoolteacherly talk on how clean the election was going to be (Christopher Rand).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="schoolteaching">
<B>schoolteaching, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the occupation or profession of a schoolteacher. </DL>
<A NAME="schooltime">
<B>schooltime, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the time at which school begins or during which school continues. <DD><B> 2. </B>the period of life which is passed at school. </DL>
<A NAME="schooltuna">
<B>school tuna,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tuna fish ranging from 20 to 100 pounds. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolward">
<B>schoolward, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> toward school. <BR> <I>Ex. They reluctantly trudged schoolward (adv.). They found many distractions on their schoolward journey (adj.).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="schoolwork">
<B>schoolwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a student's work in school. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolyard">
<B>schoolyard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a piece of ground around or near a school, used for play or games. </DL>
<A NAME="schoolyear">
<B>school year,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the part of the year during which school is in session. A school year usually begins in September of one year and ends in May or June of the following year. </DL>
<A NAME="schooner">
<B>schooner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a ship with two or more masts and fore-and-aft sails. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=prairie schooner.</B> <DD><B> 3a. </B>(U.S. Informal.) a large glass for beer. <BR> <I>Ex. He ordered a schooner of beer and knocked it off with unaffected enthusiasm (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(British.) a customary measure of beer. </DL>
<A NAME="schoonerrig">
<B>schooner rig,</B> =fore-and-aft rig.</DL>
<A NAME="schoonerrigged">
<B>schooner-rigged, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having fore-and-aft sails. </DL>
<A NAME="schopenhauerian">
<B>Schopenhauerian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or characteristic of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) or his doctrines. <DD><I>noun </I> a believer in or supporter of the philosophical doctrines of Schopenhauer. </DL>
<A NAME="schopenhauerism">
<B>Schopenhauerism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher; belief that life is evil, and cannot be made good. </DL>
<A NAME="schorl">
<B>schorl, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mineral, tourmaline, especially black tourmaline. </DL>
<A NAME="schorlaceous">
<B>schorlaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of the nature of, resembling, or containing schorl. </DL>
<A NAME="schottische">
<B>schottische</B> or <B>schottish, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a dance in 2/4 time, somewhat like the polka but slower, popular in the 1800's. <DD><B> 2. </B>music for it. </DL>
<A NAME="schottkydiode">
<B>Schottky diode,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Electronics.) a rectifier with a metal semiconductor. </DL>
<A NAME="schr">
<B>schr.</B> or <B>Schr.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> schooner. <BR> <I>Ex. The Schr. Rival.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="schreibersite">
<B>schreibersite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a phosphide of iron and nickel occurring only in meteoric iron. </DL>
<B>Schrodinger (wave) equation,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a general equation of wave mechanics describing the behavior of atomic particles passing through a field of force. </DL>
<A NAME="schtik">
<B>schtik, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) an act, routine, gimmick, or trick, especially thought of as characteristic of a particular entertainer. <BR> <I>Ex. John Barber's schtik is to flay his native land (Maclean's).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>shtick.</B> </DL>
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<A NAME="schubertian">
<B>Schubertian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or characteristic of Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Austrian musical composer. <BR> <I>Ex. Schubertian beauty and expressiveness (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an admirer of Franz Schubert's style or theory of music. </DL>
<A NAME="schuhplattler">
<B>schuhplattler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Bavarian folk dance for couples, in which the woman turns slowly in place, while her partner dances around her slapping his thighs and the soles of his shoes. </DL>
<A NAME="schuit">
<B>schuit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a short, somewhat bargelike ship used on the rivers and canals of the Netherlands. It has a sloop rigging but is now powered by motor. Also, <B>schuyt.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="schumanplan">
<B>Schuman Plan,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a plan providing for the pooling of the coal and steel resources of France, Italy, former West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, with production supervised by a joint authority. </DL>
<A NAME="schuss">
<B>schuss, </B>noun, verb, <B>schussed,</B> <B>schussing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> in skiing: <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a fast run down a straight course. <DD><B> 2. </B>the course itself. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make a run at top speed over a straight course. <BR> <I>Ex. He was schussing down Hahnenkamm at something like 50 miles an hour when he hit a bare spot (Newsweek).</I> noun <B>schusser.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="schussboom">
<B>schussboom, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) to ski at high speed, especially downhill. </DL>
<A NAME="schussboomer">
<B>schussboomer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a skier who schussbooms; high-speed skier. </DL>
<A NAME="schutzstaffel">
<B>Schutzstaffel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the SS Troops, especially those of the German army during World War II. </DL>
<B>Schwann cell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the cells that form a myelin sheath around the nerve fibers or axons in the peripheral nervous system. </DL>
<A NAME="schwarmerei">
<B>Schwarmerei</B> or <B>schwarmerei, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (German.) enthusiasm; devotion. <BR> <I>Ex. We had a great schwarmerei for Frank which would come like measles and go as completely (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="schwarzschildradius">
<B>Schwarzschild radius,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the size at which the gravitational forces of a collapsing body in space become so strong that they prevent the escape of any matter or radiation. <BR> <I>Ex. Eventually an object whose collapse continues reaches a limiting size that depends on its mass. The size is called the Schwarzschild radius. For the sun, it is about three kilometers. When the object shrinks to less than its Schwarzschild radius, it becomes a black hole (Science News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="schwedlermaple">
<B>Schwedler maple,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of Norway maple with bright red leaves that turn dark green in summer. </DL>
<A NAME="schweitzersreagent">
<B>Schweitzer's reagent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a reagent used to test for the presence of wool, consisting of an hydroxide of copper combined with ammonia. </DL>
<A NAME="schweizerkase">
<B>Schweizerkase</B> or <B>schweizerkase, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (German.) Swiss cheese. </DL>
