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A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts

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A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.

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• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• TRAIN
  1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." Milton. 2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. Halliwell. With
• EDUCATIONIST
  One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• COMMITTAL
  The act of commiting, or the state of being committed; commitment.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• EDUCATION
  The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.