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To STUD, v. a. To adorn with studs or shining knobs. 
Thy horses shall be trapp’d. 
Their harness studded all with gold and pearl. Shakspeare. 
STU'DENT, s. [ studens, Lat.J A man given to books; 
a scholar 5 a bookish man.—Keep a gamester from dice, and 
a good student from his book. Shakspeare. 
STUDHAM, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 3 
miles west-south-west of Market Street. 
STUDHAM, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Kirkhampton, Cumberland. 
STU'DIED, adj. Learned; versed in any study; qua¬ 
lified by study. 
He died 
As one that had been studied in his death, 
To throw away the dearest thing he ow’d, 
As ’twere a careless trifle. Shakspeare. 
Having any particular inclination. Out of use. —A prince 
should not be so loosely studied as to remember so weak a 
composition. Shakspeare. 
STUDIER, s. One who studied. — Lipsius was a great 
studier of the stoical philosophy ; upon his death-bed his 
friend told him, that he needed not use arguments to persuade 
him to patience, the philosophy which he had studied would 
furnish him; he answers him, Lord Jesus, give me Christian 
patience. Til/otson. —There is a law of nature, as intelligi¬ 
ble to a rational creature and studier of that law, as the po¬ 
sitive laws of commonwealths. Locke. 
STU'DIOUS, adj. [ studieux , Fr.; studiosus, Lat.] 
Given to books and contemplation ; given to learning.—A 
proper remedy for wandering thoughts, he that shall propose 
would do great service to the studious and contemplative 
part of mankind. Locke. —Diligent; busy.— Studious to 
find new friends, and new allies. Tickell. —Attentive to; 
careful: with of. —Divines must become studious of pious 
and venerable antiquity. White. 
The people made 
Stout for the war, and studious of their trade. Dry den. 
Contemplative ; suitable to meditation. 
Let my due feet never fail 
To walk the studious cloisters pale. Milton. 
STU'DIOUSLY, adv. Contemplatively; with close ap¬ 
plication to literature; diligently; carefully ; attentively. 
On a short pruning hook his head reclines, 
And studiously surveys his generous vines. Dryden. 
STU'DIOUSNESS, s. Addiction to study.—Men are 
sometimes addicted to studiousness and learning, sometimes 
to ease and ignorance. Hakewill. 
STUDLAND, a hamlet of England, in Hertfordshire, 
adjoining Kinsworth. 
STUDLAND, a parish of England, in the county of 
Dorset, at the extremity of the isle of Purbeck. The church 
is an ancient building. In the neighbourhood are some 
curious barrows, the most remarkable of which is the Ag- 
glestone or Stone Barrow, which covers about an acre of 
ground. It is 90 feet high, and 50 feet in diameter at the 
top. Population 306 ; 6 miles east-by-north of Corfe 
Castle, and 118 south-west of London. 
STUDLAND BAY, a bay in England, on the Dorset¬ 
shire coast, seven leagues north-west-by-west from the Isle of 
Wight. It extends about a league north-by-east, and affords 
good anchorage ground for vessels not drawing more than 
] 4 feet water. Although an open road, ships ride here as 
safely as in a harbour, and may get out easily when the 
wind blows right in; there being about nine hours outset, 
and only three inset. The ground is all clear, and good for 
cables. 
STUDLEY, a hamlet of England, partly in Bucking¬ 
hamshire, and partly in Oxfordshire; 7 miles north-by-east 
of Oxford. 
STUDLEY, a parish of England, in Warwickshire, on 
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the river Arrow ; 4 miles north by west of Alcester. Popu¬ 
lation 1083. 
STUDLEY, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 3 miles 
south-west of Bampton. 
STUDLEY, a hamlet of England, West Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 2 miles west-south-west of Rippon. 
STU'DY, s. [studium, Lat.; estude, Fr.] Application 
of mind to books and learning.— Study gives strength to 
the mind; conversation, grace. Temple.— Perplexity ; deep 
cogitation. 
Th’ idea of her life shall sweetly creep 
Into his study of imagination. Shakspeare. 
The king of Castile, a little confused, and in a study, said 
that can I not do with my honour. Bacon. —Attention ; 
meditation; contrivance. 
What can happen 
To me above this wretchedness? All your studies 
Make me a curse like this. Shakspeare. 
Any particular kind of learning.— Studies serve for delight 
in privateness and retiring, for ornament in discourse, and 
for ability in the judgment and disposition of business. 
Bacon. —Subject of attention.—The holy Scriptures, espe¬ 
cially the New Testament, are her daily study. Law.— 
Apartment appropriated to literary employment.—Get me a 
taper in my study, Lucius. Shakspeare. —The sketched ideas 
of a painter, not wrought into a whole. Gilpin. —Notwith¬ 
standing all his faults, such is his [Tempesta’s] merit, that, 
as studies at least, his prints deserve a much higher rank in 
the cabinets of connoisseurs, than they generally find; you 
can scarce pick out one of them, which does not furnish 
materials for an excellent composition. Gilpin. 
To STU'DY, v. n. [studeo, Lat.; estudier, Fr.] To 
think with very close application; to muse.—I found a 
moral first, and then studied for a fable. Swift. —To en¬ 
deavour diligently.— Study to be quiet, and do your own 
business. 1 Thess. 
To STU'DY, v. a. To apply the mind to. 
Nothing lovelier can be found 
In woman, than to study household good. Milton. 
To consider attentively.—He hath studied her well, and 
translated her out of honesty into English. Shakspeare. — 
To learn by application.—You could, for a need study a 
speech of some dozen lines, which I would set down. Shak¬ 
speare. 
STUDZIANA, a small town in the interior of Poland, 
near the river Pilica ; 52 miles south-south-west of Warsaw. 
STUFF, s. [ stoffe , Dutch ; estoffe, Fr.] Any matter or 
body. 
Of brick, and of that stuff, they cast to build 
A city and tow'er. Milton. 
Materials out of which any thing is made. 
Caesar hath wept; 
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Shakspeare. 
Furniture; goods.—Fair away to get out stuff aboard. 
Shakspeare. —That which fills any thing. 
With some sweet oblivious antidote 
Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff 
Which weighs upon the heart. Shakspeare. 
Essence; elemental part. 
Though in the trade of war I have slain men. 
Yet do I hold it very stuff o’ th’ conscience 
To do no contriv’d murther. Shakspeare. 
Any mixture or medicine. 
I did compound for her 
A certain stuff, which being ta’en, would seize 
The present power of life. Shakspeare. 
Cloth or texture of any kind; textures of wool thinner and 
slighter than cloth.—Let us turn the wools of the land into 
cloaths and stuffs of our own growth, and the hemp and flax 
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