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A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. [Eng.]

A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize. [Harvard Univ., U. S.]

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. [Cant, U.S.]

th, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study. To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed. Milton. Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process. Transl. of Lavoisier.

e; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.

o slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.

Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. "A diver into causes." Sir H. Wotton.

That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth. "Public diversions." V. Knox. Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison.

To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor. We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy. C. J. Smith.

under Casting. The casting of draperies . . . is one of the most important of an artist's studies. Fairholt.

ng wounds. -- Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown. -- Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet. -- Dressing table, a table at which a person may dress, and on which articles for the toilet stand. -- Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over…

A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.

rt. "The dull earth." Shak. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain. Longfellow.

A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.

One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.

al, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

er, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. H. Spenser.

ss. "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition." Mark vii. 13. "All my study be to no effect." Shak. -- To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results. -- To take effect, to become operative, to accomplish aims. Shak.

One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.

The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.