Stand (n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
Stand (n.) To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
Stand (n.) To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
Stand (n.) 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.
Stand (n.) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
Stand (n.) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
Stand (n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
Stand (n.) 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.
Stand (n.) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
Stand (n.) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
Stand (n.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
Stand (n.) To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
Stand (n.) To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
Stand (n.) To measure when erect on the feet.
Stand (n.) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
Stand (n.) To appear in court.
Stand (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat.
Stand (v. t.) To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand.
Stand (v. t.) To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.
Stand (v. t.) To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.
Stand (v. t.) To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
Stand (v. i.) The act of standing.
Stand (v. i.) A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
Stand (v. i.) A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.
Stand (v. i.) A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
Stand (v. i.) A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.
Stand (v. i.) A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.
Stand (v. i.) A place where a witness stands to testify in court.
Stand (v. i.) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
Stand (v. i.) Rank; post; station; standing.
Stand (v. i.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.
Stand (v. i.) A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
Stand (v. i.) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.
Standage (n.) A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
Standard (n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.
Standard (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
Standard (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.
Standard (n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
Standard (n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
Standard (n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
Standard (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
Standard (n.) The sheth of a plow.
Standard (n.) A large drinking cup.
Standard (a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
Standard (a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
Standard (a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
Standard (a.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.
Standard-bred (a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
Standardize (v. t.) To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
Standard-wing (n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
Stand-by (n.) One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.
Standel (n.) A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.
Stander (n.) One who stands.
Stander (n.) Same as Standel.
Stander-by (n.) One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.
Standergrass (n.) A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.
Standgale (n.) See Stannel.
Standing (a.) Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn.
Standing (a.) Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water.
Standing (a.) Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color.
Standing (a.) 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.
Standing (a.) Not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed).
Standing (n.) The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand.
Standing (n.) Maintenance of position; duration; duration or existence in the same place or condition; continuance; as, a custom of long standing; an officer of long standing.
Standing (n.) Place to stand in; station; stand.
Standing (n.) Condition in society; relative position; reputation; rank; as, a man of good standing, or of high standing.
Standish (n.) A stand, or case, for pen and ink.
Standpipe (n.) A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.
Standpipe (n.) A supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam.
Standpoint (n.) A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
Standstill (n.) A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
Stane (n.) A stone.
Stang () imp. of Sting.
Stang (n.) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
Stang (n.) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
Stang (v. i.) To shoot with pain.
Stanhope (n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.
Staniel (n.) See Stannel.
Stanielry (n.) Hawking with staniels, -- a base kind of falconry.
Stank (a.) Weak; worn out.
Stank (v. i.) To sigh.
Stank (imp.) Stunk.
Stank (n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.
Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
Stannary (a.) Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.
Stannaries (pl. ) of Stannary
Stannary (n.) A tin mine; tin works.
Stannate (n.) A salt of stannic acid.
Stannel (n.) The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall.
Stannic (a.) Of or pertaining to tin; derived from or containing tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with stannous compounds.
Stanniferous (a.) Containing or affording tin.
Stannine (n.) Alt. of Stannite
Stannite (n.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.
Stanno- () A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, tin, or including tin as an ingredient.
Stannofluoride (n.) Any one of a series of double fluorides of tin (stannum) and some other element.
Stannoso- (a.) A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.
Stannotype (n.) A photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype.
Stannous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds.
Stannum (n.) The technical name of tin. See Tin.