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stud 1       (stŭd)  Pronunciation Key  n.   An upright post in the framework of a wall for supporting sheets of lath, wallboard, or similar material. A small knob, nail head, or rivet fixed in and slightly projecting from a surface. A small ornamental button mounted on a short post for insertion through an eyelet, as on a dress shirt. A buttonlike earring mounted on a slender post, as of gold or steel, for wearing in a pierced earlobe. Any of various protruding pins or pegs in machinery, used mainly as a support or pivot. One of a number of small metal cleats embedded in a snow tire to increase traction on slippery or snowy roads. Any of various protruding pins or pegs in machinery, used mainly as a support or pivot. One of a number of small metal cleats embedded in a snow tire to increase traction on slippery or snowy roads. A metal crosspiece used as a brace in a link, as in a chain cable. tr.v.   stud·ded, stud·ding, studs To provide with or construct with studs or a stud. To set with studs or a stud: stud a bracelet with rubies. To be scattered over: Daisies studded the meadow. [Middle English stode, from Old English studu; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

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stud 2       (stŭd)  Pronunciation Key  n.   A group of animals, especially horses, kept for breeding. A male animal, such as a stallion, that is kept for breeding. A stable or farm where these animals are kept. A man regarded as virile and sexually active. A man regarded as attractive. Slang A man regarded as virile and sexually active. A man regarded as attractive. Games Stud poker. [Middle English stod, establishment for breeding horses, from Old English stōd; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

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noun
1.	a man who is virile and sexually active
2.	ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
3.	an upright in house framing [syn: scantling]
4.	adult male horse kept for breeding
5.	poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
verb
1.	scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights" [syn: dot]
2.	provide with or construct with studs; "stud the wall"

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Quar"ter\, n. [F. quartier, L. quartarius a fourth part, fr. quartus the fourth. See Quart.]

1. One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. Hence, specifically: (a) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. (b) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal. --Hutton. (c) (Astron.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full. (d) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters. (e) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. (f) (Far.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. (g) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. (h) pl. (Mil.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. (i) (Naut.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings. (j) (Her.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.

Note: When two coats of arms are united upon one escutcheon, as in case of marriage, the first and fourth quarters display one shield, the second and third the other. See Quarter, v. t., 5. (k) One of the four parts into which the horizon is regarded as divided; a cardinal point; a direction' principal division; a region; a territory.

Scouts each coast light-armed scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe. --Milton. (l) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris. (m) (Arch.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud. (n) (Naut.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11[deg] 15', that is, about 2[deg] 49'; -- called also quarter point.

2. Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.

Swift to their several quarters hasted then The cumbrous elements. --Milton. Hence, specifically: (a) (Naut.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural. (b) Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural.

The banter turned as to what quarters each would find. --W. Irving. (c) pl. (Mil.) A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters. (d) Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes.

He magnified his own clemency, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives. --Clarendon.

Cocks and lambs . . . at the mercy of cats and wolves . . . must never expect better quarter. --L'Estrange.

3. Friendship; amity; concord. [Obs.] To keep quarter, to keep one's proper place, and so be on good terms with another. [Obs.]

In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom. --Shak.

I knew two that were competitors for the secretary's place, . . . and yet kept good quarter between themselves. --Bacon.

False quarter, a cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot.

Fifth quarter, the hide and fat; -- a butcher's term.

On the quarter (Naut.), in a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter.

Quarter aspect. (Astrol.) Same as Quadrate.

Quarter back (Football), the player who has position next behind center rush, and receives the ball on the snap back.

Quarter badge (Naut.), an ornament on the side of a vessel near, the stern. --Mar. Dict.

Quarter bill (Naut.), a list specifying the different stations to be taken by the officers and crew in time of action, and the names of the men assigned to each.

Quarter block (Naut.), a block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side of the slings, through which the clew lines and sheets are reeved. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

Quarter boat (Naut.), a boat hung at a vessel's quarter.

Quarter cloths (Naut.), long pieces of painted canvas, used to cover the quarter netting.

Quarter day, a day regarded as terminating a quarter of the year; hence, one on which any payment, especially rent, becomes due. In matters influenced by United States statutes, quarter days are the first days of January, April, July, and October. In New York and many other places, as between landlord and tenant, they are the first days of May, August, November, and February. The quarter days usually recognized in England are 25th of March (Lady Day), the 24th of June (Midsummer Day), the 29th of September (Michaelmas Day), and the 25th of December (Christmas Day).

Quarter face, in fine arts, portrait painting, etc., a face turned away so that but one quarter is visible.

Quarter gallery (Naut.), a balcony on the quarter of a ship. See Gallery, 4.

Quarter gunner (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the gunner.

Quarter look, a side glance. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

Quarter nettings (Naut.), hammock nettings along the quarter rails.

Quarter note (Mus.), a note equal in duration to half a minim or a fourth of semibreve; a crochet.

Quarter pieces (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the after-part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. --Totten.

Quarter point. (Naut.) See Quarter, n., 1 (n) .

Quarter railing, or Quarter rails (Naut.), narrow molded planks reaching from the top of the stern to the gangway, serving as a fence to the quarter-deck.

Quarter sessions (Eng. Law), a general court of criminal jurisdiction held quarterly by the justices of peace in counties and by the recorders in boroughs.

Quarter square (Math.), the fourth part of the square of a number. Tables of quarter squares have been devised to save labor in multiplying numbers.

Quarter turn, Quarter turn belt (Mach.), an arrangement in which a belt transmits motion between two shafts which are at right angles with each other.

Quarter watch (Naut.), a subdivision of the full watch (one fourth of the crew) on a man-of- war.

To give, or show, quarter (Mil.), to accept as prisoner, on submission in battle; to forbear to kill, as a vanquished enemy.

To keep quarter. See Quarter, n., 3.

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Stand\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stood; p. pr. & vb. n. Standing.] [OE. standen; AS. standan; akin to OFries. stonda, st[=a]n, D. staan, OS. standan, st[=a]n, G. stehen, Icel. standa, Dan. staae, Sw. st[*a], Goth. standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. ? to cause to stand, ? to stand, Skr. sth[=a]. [root]163. Cf. Assist, Constant, Contrast, Desist, Destine, Ecstasy, Exist, Interstice, Obstacle, Obstinate, Prest, n., Rest remainder, Soltice, Stable, a. & n., State, n., Statute, Stead, Steed, Stool, Stud of horses, Substance, System.]

1. To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position; as: (a) To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc. "I pray you all, stand up!" --Shak. (b) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.

It stands as it were to the ground yglued. --Chaucer.

The ruined wall Stands when its wind worn battlements are gone. --Byron.

2. To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.

Wite ye not where there stands a little town? --Chaucer.

3. To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.

I charge thee, stand, And tell thy name. --Dryden.

The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. --Matt. ii. 9.

4. To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.

My mind on its own center stands unmoved. --Dryden.

5. To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.

Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall. --Spectator.

6. To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. "The standing pattern of their imitation." --South.

The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life. --Esther viii. 11.

7. To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.

We must labor so as to stand with godliness, according to his appointment. --Latimer.

8. To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.

9. To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. "Sacrifices . . . which stood only in meats and drinks." --Heb. ix. 10.

Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resigned, and am prepared to go. --Dryden.

Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry. --Sir W. Scott.

10. To be consistent; to agree; to accord.

Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor. --Massinger.

11. (Naut.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.

From the same parts of heaven his navy stands. --Dryden.

12. To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.

He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university. --Walton.

13. To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.

Or the black water of Pomptina stands. --Dryden.

14. To measure when erect on the feet.

Six feet two, as I think, he stands. --Tennyson.

15. (Law) (a) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide. --Bouvier. (b) To appear in court. --Burrill.

Stand by (Naut.), a preparatory order, equivalent to Be ready.

To stand against, to opposite; to resist.

To stand by. (a) To be near; to be a spectator; to be present. (b) To be aside; to be aside with disregard. "In the interim [we] let the commands stand by neglected." --Dr. H. More. (c) To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert; as, to stand by one's principles or party. (d) To rest on for support; to be supported by. --Whitgift.

To stand corrected, to be set right, as after an error in a statement of fact. --Wycherley.

To stand fast, to be fixed; to be unshaken or immovable.

To stand firmly on, to be satisfied or convinced of. "Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so firmly on his wife's frailty." --Shak.

To stand for. (a) To side with; to espouse the cause of; to support; to maintain, or to profess or attempt to maintain; to defend. "I stand wholly for you." --Shak. (b) To be in the place of; to be the substitute or to represent; as, a cipher at the left hand of a figure stands for nothing. "I will not trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing, or really include one another." --Locke.

To stand in, to cost. "The same standeth them in much less cost." --Robynson (More's Utopia).

The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species. --Burke.

To stand in hand, to conduce to one's interest; to be serviceable or advantageous.

To stand off. (a) To keep at a distance. (b) Not to comply. (c) To keep at a distance in friendship, social intercourse, or acquaintance. (d) To appear prominent; to have relief. "Picture is best when it standeth off, as if it were carved." --Sir H. Wotton.

To stand off and on (Naut.), to remain near a coast by sailing toward land and then from it.

To stand on (Naut.), to continue on the same tack or course.

To stand out. (a) To project; to be prominent. "Their eyes stand out with fatness." --Psalm lxxiii. 7. (b) To persist in opposition or resistance; not to yield or comply; not to give way or recede.

His spirit is come in, That so stood out against the holy church. --Shak.

To stand to. (a) To ply; to urge; to persevere in using. "Stand to your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars." --Dryden. (b) To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion. "I will stand to it, that this is his sense." --Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To abide by; to adhere to; as to a contrast, assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand to one's word. (d) Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as one's ground. "Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away." --Bacon. (e) To be consistent with; to agree with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done so. (f) To support; to uphold. "Stand to me in this cause." --Shak.

To stand together, to be consistent; to agree.

To stand to sea (Naut.), to direct the course from land.

To stand under, to undergo; to withstand. --Shak.

To stand up. (a) To rise from sitting; to be on the feet. (b) To arise in order to speak or act. "Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed." --Acts xxv. 18. (c) To rise and stand on end, as the hair. (d) To put one's self in opposition; to contend. "Once we stood up about the corn." --Shak.

To stand up for, to defend; to justify; to support, or attempt to support; as, to stand up for the administration.

To stand upon. (a) To concern; to interest. (b) To value; to esteem. "We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth." --Ray. (c) To insist on; to attach much importance to; as, to stand upon security; to stand upon ceremony. (d) To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] "So I stood upon him, and slew him." --2 Sam. i. 10.

To stand with, to be consistent with. "It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally." --Sir J. Davies.

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Stand"ing\, a. 1. Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn.

2. Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water.

3. Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color.

4. Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees.

5. Not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed).

Standing army. See Standing army, under Army.

Standing bolt. See Stud bolt, under Stud, a stem.

Standing committee, in legislative bodies, etc., a committee appointed for the consideration of all subjects of a particular class which shall arise during the session or a stated period.

Standing cup, a tall goblet, with a foot and a cover.

Standing finish (Arch.), that part of the interior fittings, esp. of a dwelling house, which is permanent and fixed in its place, as distinguished from doors, sashes, etc.

Standing order (Eccl.), the denomination (Congregiational) established by law; -- a term formerly used in Connecticut. See also under Order.

Standing part. (Naut.) (a) That part of a tackle which is made fast to a block, point, or other object. (b) That part of a rope around which turns are taken with the running part in making a knot of the like.

Standing rigging (Naut.), the cordage or rope which sustain the masts and remain fixed in their position, as the shrouds and stays, -- distinguished from running rigging.

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