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on duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portio…

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

A member of an academy, university, or college.

A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

A college or seminary where one is educated.

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [U.S.]

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College. Percy Smith.

arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.

taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.

mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

n military operations. -- Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms; -- so called from the color of his official robes. -- Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed the blue pill. McElrath. -- Blue mold, or mould, the blue fungus (Aspergillus glaucus) which grows o…

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

The treasury of a college or monastery.

A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. E. Hall.