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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise.

Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell.

An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates.

Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.

Resembling the shell of a tortoise.

t is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Græca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.

To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.

Not studied; not acquired by study; unlabored; natural.

he brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

n some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

ate; -- with to. "They addict themselves to the civil law." Evelyn. He is addicted to his study. Beau. & Fl. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

A medical certificate that a student is ill.

Of or Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. -- Æs*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.