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The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.

abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Fuller.

ed to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

A student, or lover of the study, of iconography.

An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. T. Warton.

One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns. Inns of chancery (Eng.), colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly by attorneys, solicitors, etc. -- Inns of court (Eng…

A French lyceum, or secondary school supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university.

ble case; an unsettled question. Dryden. -- Moot court, a mock court, such as is held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases. -- Moot point, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.

h, for holding mortar; a hawk. (b) A cap with a broad, projecting, square top; -- worn by students in some colleges. [Slang]

One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.

One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.

One skilled in ornithology; a student of ornithology; one who describes birds.

A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.

One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.

One versed in, or a student of, penology.

A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. [R.] What student came but that you planed her path. Tennyson.