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Marked with small spots. The studs have their surface punctulated, as if set all over with other studs infinitely lesser. Woodward.

To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the like; also, with gold studs or mountings.

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.)

Studious of profit. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

This breaking up occurs in at least seven stages; the successive main products have been studied and are called radium emanation or exradio, radium A, radium B, radium C, etc. (The emanation is a heavy gas, the later products are solids.) These products are regarded as unstable elements, each with an atomic weight a l…

jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison.

." Longfellow. 3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. "Rapt in secret studies." Shak.

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.

One who reads much; one who is studious.

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

eadmitted; as, the readmission fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.

Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. "Recondite learning." Bp. Horsley.

aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.

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.

iew; a reëxamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.