STUDENT, n. [L. See Study.]
1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning, either in a seminary or in private; a scholar; as the students of an academy, of a college or university; a medical student; a law student.
2. A man devoted to books; a bookish man; as a hard student; a close student.
Keep a gamester from dice, and a good student from his books.
3. One who studies or examines; as a student of natures works.
