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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Schooling \School"ing\, a. [See {School} a shoal.] (Zo["o]l.)
   Collecting or running in schools or shoals.

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.

Source : WordNet®

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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