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Webster 1913 Edition


Bestud

Be-stud′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bestudded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bestudding
.]
To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud;
as, to
bestud
with stars
.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bestud

BESTUD'

,
Verb.
T.
[be and stud.] To set with studs; to adorn with bosses; as, to bestud with stars.

Definition 2024


bestud

bestud

English

Verb

bestud (third-person singular simple present bestuds, present participle bestudding, simple past and past participle bestudded)

  1. (transitive) To set with or as with studs; adorn with bosses.
    • 1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia, especially the Territories of the Persian Monarchie: And some Parts of the Orientall Indies, and Iles Adiacent. Of their Religion, Language, Habit, Discent, Ceremonies, and other Matters Concerning Them: Together with the Proceedings and Death of the Three Late Ambassadours: Sir D. C[otton] Sir R. S[herley] and the Persian Nogdi-Beg: As also the Two Great Monarchs, the King of Persia, and the Great Mogol, London: Printed by William Stansby, and Iacob Bloome, OCLC 644078533; republished as William Foster, editor, Travels in Persia 1627–1629. Abridged and Edited by Sir William Foster [...] with an Introduction and Notes (Broadway Travellers), London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1928, OCLC 4900176, page 79:
      His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; []