Forms: 6 studd, 7 stood, styd, 7– stud. [f. STUD sb.1]
1. trans. To supply with studs or upright timbers; to build with studs.
1505–6. in Swayne, Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896), 260. Pro bredyng & dabyng & studdyng murorum in diuersis stadiis.
1511. Nottingham Rec., III. 330. Settyng vp and studdyng of an other hous.
1849. Noad, Electricity (ed. 3), 330. Within the walls are to be studded, to protect from cold and damp.
2. To ornament or cover with or as with studs, bosses, or nail heads.
1570. Levins, Manip., 183/2. To studde, baccis ornare, geminare [read gemmare].
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., Induct. ii. 44. Their harnesse studded all with Gold and Pearle.
1624. Gee, Foot out of Snare, v. 51. A gold Hat-band studded with letters or Characters.
1643. Baker, Chron., Hen. V., 48. The King … appointed divers stakes studded with iron at both ends … to be pitched behinde the Archers.
1649. Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp., II. Disc. vii. 36. God hath studded all the Firmament, and paved it with starres.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 4. The Common Fly … her body is as it were from head to tayl studded with silver and black Armour.
1675. Covel, in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.), 229. Severall round looking-glasses with gold frames … and stydded with pretious stones.
1715. trans. Pancirollus’ Rerum Mem., I. II. vi. 74. Their Gates were studded with Nails of the brightest Iron.
1735. Dyche & Pardon, Dict., Stud v., to fill or ornament any thing with Studs, or small Wire, &c.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., VIII. 140. Most travellers who have gone through sandy countries, must well remember the little shining sparks with which the ditches are studded on each side of the road.
1790. Cowper, Iliad, XIX. 452. First to his legs his polish’d greaves he clasp’d Studded with silver.
1820. Scott, Monast., i. A strong door of oak, studded with nails.
1823. Rutter, Fonthill, 41. The furniture of this room is entirely of ebony, studded with ivory.
1832–4. De Quincey, Cæsars, Wks. 1859, X. 231. His sandals were studded with pearls.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. VI. iii. Leather girdles studded with copper nails.
1845. G. Dodd, Brit. Manuf., Ser. IV. 105. From the designs the barrels are studded and thus made ready for the loom.
1891. Leeds Mercury, 27 April, 4/7. The … sleeves studded thickly over with tiny glittering silver sequins.
3. To set (a surface) with a number of protuberant or conspicuous objects. Also with over.
1790. W. Wrighte, Grotesque Archit., 6. The outside to be composed of … irregular stones, and studded with small pebbles.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), IV. 300. [Agaricus glandulosus] Gills white, their sides studded with globular glands.
1804. C. B. Brown trans. Volney’s View Soil U.S., 71. The summit is too thickly studded with trees to permit us to trace the lateral course of this chain with the eye.
1835. Dickens, Sk. Boz, River. The river is studded with boats of all sorts, kinds, and descriptions.
1843. R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xiv. 161. The chest, arms and hands studded with florid maculæ.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, i. The coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity … to the North Cape.
1861. Reade, Cloister & H., vii. (1896), 23. The windows and balconies were studded with wondering faces.
1872. Huxley, Physiogr., 194. Mount Etna is remarkable for having its flanks studded with parasitic cones.
1885. Law Times’ Rep., LIII. 385/1. The line of country through which they were going was studded with buildings and manufactories.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 1012. Both lungs were studded with tubercle.
b. rarely in immaterial sense.
1849. Miss Mulock, Ogilvies, xvii. Pennythorne’s conversation was studded with execrable jokes.
1874. J. S. Blackie, Self-Cult., 83. The method of teaching by concrete examples, with which the Scriptures are so richly studded.
4. Of things: a. To be fixed in (a surface) in the manner of studs. b. To be placed at intervals over (a surface).
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., VII. xix. The stars … That stud the luminated sphere.
1682. N. O., Boileau’s Lutrin, i. 5. Her rich Face sparkling Rubies studded over.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, III. 175. We pass the scatter’d Isles of Cyclades; That, scarce distinguish’d, seem to stud the Seas.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Odes, etc. (1765), 282. As when a shepherd … surveys his less’ning flock In snowy groups diffusive, stud the vale.
1836. W. Irving, Astoria, I. 15. This … system of internal seas … was studded by the remote posts of the company.
1845. Gosse, Ocean, iv. (1849), 178. Of all the constellations that stud the sky of the southern hemisphere, there is none that more strikes a stranger than the Southern Cross.
1854. Surtees, Handley Cr., x. (1901), I. 84. After passing the long line of villas that stud the road in the Mount Sion direction.
1906. Cornford, Defenceless Islands, 71. Coaling-stations stud the ocean highways of the world.
1911. G. Elliot Smith, Anc. Egyptians, vi. 91. The Arab, having little or no moustache, removed the few hairs that studded his upper lip.
5. To insert or place (a number of things) at intervals over a surface.
1856. Stanley, Sinai & Pal., i. (1858), 99. The little shrubs, which had more or less sprinkled the whole ’Arabah, were more thickly studded.
1881. ‘Rita,’ My Lady Coquette, iv. The stars are thickly studded in the dim deep blue of the sky.
1895. Scott. Antiquary, X. 79. Around the firesides of the cottages, which were studded over the moor.
6. Mech. To secure with studs.
1911. Webster.
