bestud
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of bestud
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When marshalled on the nightly plain The glitt'ring host bestud the sky, One star alone of all the train Can fix the sinner's wandering eye.
From In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)
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 Webster, Noah
The ground is here and there bestud With lumps of only part-burned coal.
From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Lowell, Amy
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 Verne, Jules
When, marshalled on the nightly plain, The glittering host bestud the sky, One star alone of all the train Can fix the sinner's wandering eye.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron
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 Petherick, Horace
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 Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
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 Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
So also do the perpetual roses and portcullises with which the walls are bestudded.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
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 Senior, William
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