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To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars.

They vary greatly in form and ornamentation—for it would seem that the portions of lichen which frequently bestud them are affixed to their exterior with that object, though probably concealment was the original intention.

Then I would have the furniture of the funeral less suggestive of sorrow without hope; and specially I would have the coffin less gloomy,—I might in many cases say, less hideous: let it be of plain wood, or, if covered, let its covering be of less gloomy character, and without the trashy and unmeaning ornaments with which undertakers are used to bestud it.

Bestud, be-stud′, v.t. to adorn as with studs, as the sky with stars.