Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SCHOOL'-HOUSE
SCHOOL'-HOUSE, n. [See House.]
A house appropriated for the use of schools, or for instruction; but applied only to buildings for subordinate schools, not to colleges in Connecticut and some other states, every town is divided into school-districts, and each district erects its own school-house by a tax on the inhabitants.
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