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ews, penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, esp. in Talmudic study. -- Pil"pul*ist (#), n. --Pil`pul*is"tic (#), a.

The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.

To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and men.

A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib. [College Cant]

To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over."Painfully to pore upon a book." Shak. The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.

e or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. I. Watts

ho profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.

pful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. Arbuthnot. -- Prof"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Prof"it*a*bly, adv.

right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress. The proper study of mankind is man. Pope. In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play, All proper to the spring, and sprightly May. Dryden.

The study or description of the arrangement of feathers, or of the pterylæ, of birds.

One who is versed in, or makes a study of, pyrology.

information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. Macaulay. Quantity of estate (Law), its time of continuance, or degree of interest, as in fee, for life, or for years. Wharton (Law Dict. ) -- Quantity of matter, in a body, its mass, as determined by its weight, or by its…

A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. (h) pl. (Mil.)

To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law. To read one's self in, to read about the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.

ecifically, to send into exile; to banish. It [the Latin language] was relegated into the study of the scholar. Milman.

so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.

The study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope.