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A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize. [Harvard Univ., U. S.]

A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.]

One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.

One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.

A pupil; a student.

To utter; to articulate. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently. A. M. Bell.

A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.

One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.

A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry. He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations. Macaulay. Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law), that examination which is made of a witnes…

ing; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc. The offenders that are to be examined. Shak.

; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

rther connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.

A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. "Ladies of a high form." Bp. Burnet.

novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

A student of the first year.

as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

. -- To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted. -- To stand in the gate, or gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military. He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield. Dryden.

A hard student; a dig. [College Slang]