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Stud

noun

1.

A man who is virile and sexually active. Synonyms: he-man, macho-man.

2.

Ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt). Synonym: rivet.

3.

An upright in house framing. Synonym: scantling.

4.

Adult male horse kept for breeding. Synonym: studhorse.

5.

Poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt. Synonym: stud poker.

verb

(past & past part. studded; pres. part. studding)

1.

Scatter or intersperse like dots or studs. Synonyms: constellate, dot.

2.

Provide with or construct with studs.

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"Stud" Quotes from Famous Books

... find the ancient walls and towers which stud the hills that rise above these valleys in the hands of families who owned them even in the last century. Terror of the Revolutionists caused most of the small nobility of the country to forsake their homes and lands, which were consequently sold by the State revolutionnairement, ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... was deserted. One lone man was playing at the faro-table. The roulette-ball was not even spinning, and the gamekeeper stood by the roaring, red-hot stove, talking with the young, dark-eyed woman, comely of face and figure, who was known from Juneau to Fort Yukon as the Virgin. Three men sat in at stud-poker, but they played with small chips and without enthusiasm, while there were no onlookers. On the floor of the dancing-room, which opened out at the rear, three couples were waltzing drearily to the strains of a ...

— Burning Daylight • Jack London

... still, however, continues to burn; and the mountain emits from the wide crater at its summit several jets of vapour. The foregoing woodcut gives a view of this volcano, and of the little steaming ovens which stud the whole ground around it, giving it at a distance the appearance of the sea in a storm. And now confess that Mr. Jorullo's monument is far grander than the pyramid of Cheops. Surely the loss of his farm was amply compensated to him, by the perpetuation of his memory and his name, through the rearing ...

— Wonders of Creation • Anonymous

... hand to his head and his flushed face turned pale. But Lord Robert Ure stepped forward and said with a smile: "Well, and if you've lost your church so much the better. You are only an outsider in the ecclesiastical stud anyway. Who wants you? Your rector doesn't want you; your Bishop doesn't want you. Nobody wants you, if you ...

— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine

... by the blaze the carl stud, Wi's han's aneath his tails; And aye he said—"I tauld ye sae, An' ye're to blame yersels. It's a' your wite (blame), for ye're a' wrang— Ye'll maybe own't at last: What gart ye burn thae deevilich weyds, Whan the win' blew frae the wast? Ye're a' wrang, and a' wrang, ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

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