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ttends 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, and a good student from his book. Shak.

A body of students. [R.]

The state of being a student.

n some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

A medical certificate that a student is ill.

One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.

One learned about algæ; a student of algology.

A student of bees. [R.] Emerson.

One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.

, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.

A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [Eng.]

who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.] Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. -- Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.…

A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope.

A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

larship or charitable foundation in a university, as in scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.

A youth; especially, a student in a german university.

In Germany, any of various associations of university students formed (the original one at Jena in 1815) to support liberal ideas, or the organization formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a soc…