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Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift.

abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.

d dangerous, which are heresies, And, not reformed, may prove pernicious. Shak. After the study of philosophy began in Greece, and the philosophers, disagreeing amongst themselves, had started many questions . . . because every man took what opinion he pleased, each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified…

One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.

A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy. Farrow.

One versed in, or whostudies, hierology.

Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism.

has come to himself. By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as, he sits or studies by himself. -- To leave one to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course.

ce, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store. Hiving wisdom with each studious year. Byron.

A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Fuller.

The study of human nature. [R.] T. W. Collins.

The study of the humanities; polite learning.

One who purposes the study of the humanities, or polite literature.

education; instruction in classical and polite literature. Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland.

ed to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

A student, or lover of the study, of iconography.