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To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]

The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise. [College Cant]

he ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies. Spenser. A college gown That clad her like an April Daffodilly. Tennyson And chance-sown daffodil. Whittier.

d Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. Shipley.

ng in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.

A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

ied to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. [Univ. Cant] "The great dons of wit." Dryden.

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

g rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school. Thackeray.

ect. Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.

y was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.

In an American college, an optional study or course of study. [Colloq.]

an election or to electors. In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice President.…

y on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.

e permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.

ite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.

A license for absence from a college or a religious house. [Eng.] Shipley.

' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges. Evelyn.