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Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.] Some are so studiously changeling. Boyle.

The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.

A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

cken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

ccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression. "Great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford." Sir P. Sidney.

A student or imitator of the art or literature of the Cinquecento.

A student of the civil law at a university or college. R. Graves.

A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.

than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.

One versed in, or who studies, climatology.

Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. -- Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. -- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrared by the exhibition and examination of livin…

court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

mate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction. One frugal supper did our studies close. Dryden.

a large flat head; -- used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. [Colloq.] Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. G. Eliot.

knave, for thou art neither king nor queen.'" Rowley. -- Coat link, a pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to hold together the lappels of a double-breasted coat; or a button with a loop for a single-breasted coat. -- Coat of mail, a defensive garment of chain mail. See Chain mail, under Chain. -- Mast coat (N…

An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.