v. [f. BE- 1 + STUD v.] trans. To stud the surface of, set with or as with studs.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 258. This Purple is bestudded (as it were) … with sharpe knobs pointed.
1634. Milton, Comus, 734. The unsought diamonds Would so emblaze the forehead of the deep, And so bestud with stars.
c. 1806. H. K. White, Poet Wks. (1837), 327. The glittering host bestud the sky.
Hence Bestudded ppl. a.
1601. Weever, Mirr. Mart., E iij. This starre-bestudded vaile.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 253. The ectoderm is very richly bestudded with the thread cells.
