bestud

American  

[bih-stuhd] / bɪˈstʌd /

verb (used with object)

bestudded, bestudding

1. to set with or as if with studs; dot.

   an evening sky bestudded with stars.

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Etymology

Origin of bestud

First recorded in 1595–1605; be- + stud ¹

Example Sentences

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bestud bestudded bestudding

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

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

I have but one holiday, which is Christmas-day itself nakedly: no pretty garnish and fringes of St. John's day, Holy Innocents &c., that used to bestud it all around in the calendar.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

The ground is here and there bestud With lumps of only part-burned coal.

From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Lowell, Amy

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 Petherick, Horace

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)

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

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