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One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

One versed in archæology; an antiquary. Wright.

One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.

One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.

One who is versed in atmology.

neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

he surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

One versed in belleslettres.

Accomplished; versed. [Archaic] Spenser.

One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.

One versed in two languages.

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

d wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current. Bobbin and fly frame, a roving machine. -- Bobbin lace, lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.

Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

One versed in the science of foods.