| school nursing | Health and nursing care given to primary and secondary school students by a registered nurse. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| school phobia | <psychology> A young child's sudden aversion to or fear of attending school, usually considered a manifestation of separation anxiety. (05 Mar 2000) |
| schooling | <zoology> Collecting or running in schools or shoals. "Schooling species like the herring and menhaden." (G. B. Goode) See: School a shoal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| schoolmaster | 1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. "Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, a person less imposing, in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array." (Brougham) 2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs. "The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us into Christ." (Gal. Iii. 24) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| schoolmistress | A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| schools | Educational institutions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, dental | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of dentistry. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, health occupations | Schools which offer training in the area of health. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, medical | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, nursery | Schools for children usually under five years of age. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, nursing | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of nursing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, pharmacy | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of pharmacy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, public health | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of public health. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, veterinary | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of veterinary medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schooner | Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vesels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vesels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. The fist schooner ever constructed is said to have between built in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about theyar 1713, by a Captain Andrew Robinson, and to have received its name from the following trivial circumstance: When the vessel went off the stocks into the water, a bystander cried out,"O, how she scoons!" Robinson replied, " A scooner let her be;" and, from that time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by this name. The word scoon is popularly used in some parts of new England to denote the act of making stones skip along the surface of water. The Scottish scon means the same thing. Both words are probably allied to the Icel. Skunda, skynda, to make haste, hurry, AS. Scunian to avoid, shun, Prov. E. Scun. In the New England records, the word appears to have been originally written scooner. Babson, in his "History of Gloucester," gives the following extract from a letter written in that place Sept. 25, 1721, by Dr. Moses Prince, brother of the Rev. Thomas Prince, the annalist of New England: "This gentleman (Captain Robinson) was first contriver of schooners, and built the first of that sort about eight years since." See: the Note below. Cf. Shun. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |