School"maid` (?), n. A schoolgirl. Shak.
School"man` (?), n.; pl. Schoolmen (&?;). One versed in the niceties of
academical disputation or of school divinity.
The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp.
from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points
of nice and abstract speculation. They were so called because they
taught in the mediæval universities and schools of divinity.
School"mas`ter (?), n. 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.