Search the Dictionary

lace where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc. In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigor, and size. Sir W. Temple. He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories. Macaulay.

A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding.

A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.

A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud. [Obs.] King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery. Holinshed.

Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.

n free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail. Toten.

A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student. Keep a gamester from the dice, a…

A body of students. [R.]

The state of being a student.

Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as F. catenatus.

Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.

In a studied manner.

A student. [R.] W. Irving. Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy. Tillotson.

The working room of an artist.

Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.

for the purpose of acquiring knowledge. Hammond . . . spent thirteen hours of the day in study. Bp. Fell. Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace. Sir W. Temple.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars. Milton.

A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.

Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.

Too studious.