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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Schooling  \School"ing\,  n. 
  1.  Instruction  in  school;  tuition;  education  in  an 
  institution  of  learning;  act  of  teaching. 
 
  2.  Discipline;  reproof;  reprimand;  as  he  gave  his  son  a  good 
  schooling.  --Sir  W.  Scott. 
 
  3.  Compensation  for  instruction;  price  or  reward  paid  to  an 
  instructor  for  teaching  pupils. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Schooling  \School"ing\,  a.  [See  {School}  a  shoal.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  Collecting  or  running  in  schools  or  shoals. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  School  \School\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Schooled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Schooling}.] 
  1.  To  train  in  an  institution  of  learning;  to  educate  at  a 
  school;  to  teach. 
 
  He's  gentle,  never  schooled,  and  yet  learned. 
  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  tutor;  to  chide  and  admonish;  to  reprove;  to  subject  to 
  systematic  discipline;  to  train. 
 
  It  now  remains  for  you  to  school  your  child,  And  ask 
  why  God's  Anointed  be  reviled.  --Dryden. 
 
  The  mother,  while  loving  her  child  with  the 
  intensity  of  a  sole  affection,  had  schooled  herself 
  to  hope  for  little  other  return  than  the  waywardness 
  of  an  April  breeze.  --Hawthorne. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  schooling 
  n  1:  the  act  of  teaching  at  school 
  2:  the  process  of  being  formally  educated  at  a  school;  "what 
  will  you  do  when  you  finish  school?"  [syn:  {school}] 
  3:  the  training  of  an  animal  (especially  the  training  of  a 
  horse  for  dressage) 




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