bestud
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of bestud
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These brilliant constellations began to bestud the sky, and the Southern Cross shone out.
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne
To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
The ground is here and there bestud With lumps of only part-burned coal.
From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Amy Lowell
They vary greatly in form and ornamentation—for it would seem that the portions of lichen which frequently bestud them are affixed to their exterior with that object, though probably concealment was the original intention.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
Did she give thee a ride o’ her velvet pillion, bestudded with gold?”
From For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Horace Petherick
Rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds, and pearls, chains of gold and corselet bestudded with stones fit setting for an empress of the Orient, encased the unconscious form of the young rascal.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield
So also do the perpetual roses and portcullises with which the walls are bestudded.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
He smoked innumerable scented cigarettes, gold as to tip and monogram, which he selected with ostentatious unostentation from a heavy gold case liberally bestudded with rubies and diamonds.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
On Monday morning at breakfast time you are passing through the three hundred and odd rocks, each having its own name, bestudding the entrance to Stavanger.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior
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